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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 ...
NASA engineers have narrowed down the problem with the Voyager 1 deep space probe to a single faulty chip. It may now be possible to work around the corrupted memory and return the 47-year old ...
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 ...