In 1977, the NASA launched two space probes from Cape Canaveral to explore the outer borders of the Solar system. The ship Voyager 1 It is almost 23.5 billion kilometers from Earth and now strange signals from the space probe are baffling American astronomers
According to information from DWscientists have discovered that the ship successfully receives and executes orders from our planet, but the readings of the attitude control and articulation system (AACS) of the probe do not reflect what is really happening aboard Voyager 1.
AACS is sending the handlers of the spacecraft junk telemetry data. Part of the data coding system has succumbed to the intense radiation it is experiencing, experts suggest.
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“A mystery like this is normal at this stage of the Voyager mission,” he said. Suzanne Doddproject manager for Voyager 1 and 2 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in a statement.
We’re investigating a mystery with @NASAVoyager 1.
While the 45-year-old spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, some system readouts aren’t reflecting exactly what’s happening onboard. https://t.co/yTFQ4SsOCb
— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) May 19, 2022
“We are in interstellar space, an environment of high radiation in which no spacecraft has flown before”, added the expert. Engineers aren’t sure if the problem stems directly from that system or from another part of the ship.
The probe gemela Voyager 2also released in the seventies, behaves in a “normal” way.