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Voyager 1's computer glitch garbled the science and engineering data the craft sends to Earth, which rendered it unreadable. That started on Nov. 14, 2023. How did engineers fix Voyager's problem?
The computer, known as the “RadPC”, ... according to NASA, “trigger a so-called ‘single event effect,’ causing minor data errors that lead to cascading malfunctions, ...
NASA engineers spent months doggedly trying to fix a computer on Voyager 1, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s that’s now exploring interstellar space.
NASA's Voyager 1 deep space probe started ... a single back-and-forth communication between Voyager 1 and anyone on Earth takes ... the Computer Command System (CCS), the Flight Data ...
In November, the data packages transmitted by Voyager 1 manifested a repeating pattern of 1s and 0s as if it were stuck, according to NASA. Dodd said engineers at JPL have spent the better part of ...
One of the two oldest, active spacecraft has a new lease on life, with NASA getting the 47-year-old Voyager 1 deep space probe to send back engineering data for the first time since November 14 ...
NASA engineers suspected a single chip holding a part of the computer code had stopped working. Fortunately, they figured out a solution. Devising and implementing a solution ...
Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting. Exactly how long-distance? 15 billion miles away.