Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System?

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1754978848176029866

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A Voyager update: Engineers are still working to resolve a data issue on Voyager 1. We can talk to the spacecraft, and it can hear us, but it's a slow process given the spacecraft's incredible distance from Earth.

We’ll keep you informed on its status.

To learn more about the original issue, visit:

Engineers Working to Resolve Issue With Voyager 1 Computer – The Sun Spot

blogs.nasa.gov

 

[Michel Van]

news on voyager 1
it sound not good

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1T7RKGIPsA

 

[FighterJock]

Looks like the moment that we have all been dreading for the past 46 years has finally arrived. But I suppose Voyager 1 has had a good run. That will just leave Voyager 2.

 

[publiusr]

Could this free up the DSN a tad?

 

[Hobbes]

Yes. The Voyagers each get around 8 hours of DSN time every day.

 

[Flyaway]

The twin Voyager spacecraft launched almost five decades ago, and there's no reason they shouldn't keep going for a billion years, one of its scientists, Alan Cummings told Business Insider.

Cummings started working on the Voyager mission when he was a graduate student at Caltech in 1973, about four years before the two spacecraft launched.

Now a senior research scientist at Caltech, Cummings has seen the program dwindle from over 300 people to fewer than a dozen.

The Voyager spacecraft will probably last a billion years, says a scientist on the mission for nearly 5 decades

The Voyager spacecraft will run out of fuel soon, but a longtime mission scientist says they may continue traveling interstellar space for eons.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[FighterJock]

One problem with this senario is that both Voyager probes will have run out of fuel to continue to communicate with Earth and quite possibly far too distant anyway to try, so we will not even know what discoveries they make sadly.

 

[Foo Fighter]

Perhaps V'ger will return one day........

 

[Michel Van]

One problem with this senario is that both Voyager probes will have run out of fuel to continue to communicate with Earth and quite possibly far too distant anyway to try, so we will not even know what discoveries they make sadly.

The Main problem is that nuclear power source run out around 2036
The other Problem the Deep Space Network will be unable to receive the faint radio transmission from Voyager probes end 2020s.
oddly Voyager 2 show no issue, Voyager 1 has.
who respond on NASA communications, but still is unable to send scientific or systems data back.

In mean time some people in social media believe that Voyager 1 is used to send a message from...

 

[Archibald]

The end is near...

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-voyager-probe-glitching-months-not-quitting-1851317484

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236033493/nasas-voyager-1-spacecraft-is-talking-nonsense-its-friends-on-earth-are-worried

 

[Deleted member 4286]

NASA's Voyager 1 Probe May Have Left Solar System: Study

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft — the farthest-flung object created by human hands — has traveled beyond the sun's sphere of influence and may even have left the solar system forever, a new study suggests.

www.space.com

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9944080/Voyager-1-becomes-first-man-made-object-to-leave-the-Solar-System.html

Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn (Daily Telegraph)

the 1989 AW view on Voyagers'missions

 

[Deleted member 4286]

the 1989 AW view on Voyagers'missionsView attachment 721880View attachment 721881

And a 2019 commentary

 

[Flyaway]

Some positive progress on Voyager 1.

Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1

A new signal from humanity's most distant spacecraft could be the key to restoring it.

arstechnica.com

 

[Flyaway]

Confirming their hypothesis, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California confirmed a small portion of corrupted memory caused the problem. The faulty memory bank is located in Voyager 1's Flight Data System (FDS), one of three computers on the spacecraft. The FDS operates alongside a command-and-control central computer and another device overseeing attitude control and pointing.

The FDS duties include packaging Voyager 1's science and engineering data for relay to Earth through the craft's Telemetry Modulation Unit and radio transmitter. According to NASA, about 3 percent of the FDS memory has been corrupted, preventing the computer from carrying out normal operations.

"The team suspects that a single chip responsible for storing part of the affected portion of the FDS memory isn’t working," NASA said in an update posted Thursday. "Engineers can’t determine with certainty what caused the issue. Two possibilities are that the chip could have been hit by an energetic particle from space or that it simply may have worn out after 46 years."

NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix

"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

arstechnica.com

 

[Archibald]

great !

 

[FighterJock]

Let's see if they can. It will be good if they could.

 

[Flyaway]

50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

DSS-43 is the only antenna that can communicate with the probe.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/apollo-era-antenna-voyager-2

 

[TomS]

Voyager 1 is back! They swapped the code around in memory and it's sending engineering status data now, for the first time in months . A few more weeks and they think it will be sending science data again.

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager

blogs.nasa.gov

 

[Archibald]

"The unsinkable Molly Brown." Applies perfectly to the Voyager twins.

 

[FighterJock]

Just seen the news report on the BBC News Channel, it is really good that they managed to get back in contact with Voyager 1 after all I was almost thinking the worst had happened and that we had lost the probe.