Voyager 1 starts transmitting useable data again for first time in five months - after appearing to have broken 負かす/撃墜する nearly 50 years into its outer space 旅行
- 航空宇宙局 Voyager 1 宇宙船 has begun sending readable communications again?
- The 伝説の 調査(する) had for months been transmitting gibberish 支援する to Earth
The 10年間s-old 航空宇宙局 Voyager 1 宇宙船 has begun sending readable communications again after months of transmitting gibberish.
Voyager 1 ? the most distant human-made 反対する in 存在 ? has been sending 支援する data from interstellar space for nearly 50 years after 存在 開始する,打ち上げるd in 1977.?
However, in November a glitch occurred that made the 宇宙船's data about its 環境 and the health of its own systems unintelligible to the 航空宇宙局 scientists 監視するing it.
Famous for snapping photos of?Jupiter,?Saturn?and their moons,?Voyager 1 then returned readable communications on April 20, 確認するing it is still 安全に 巡航するing outer space.?
航空宇宙局's 公式の/役人 Twitter account for the (手先の)技術 地位,任命するd a light-hearted tweet in 祝賀: 'Hi, it's me. - V1'.
Voyager 1 is about 136 AU (15 billion miles, or 20 billion キロメーターs) from Earth, the farthest 反対する created by humans, and moving at a velocity of about 38,000 mph (17.0 キロメーターs/second) 親族 to the sun
航空宇宙局's 公式の/役人 Twitter account for the (手先の)技術 地位,任命するd a light-hearted tweet in 祝賀: 'Hi, it's me. - V1'
The account also 株d a tweet from the 公式の/役人 account for 航空宇宙局's Jet Propulsion 研究室/実験室 showing an image of the elated scientists clapping with joy at Voyager 1's 最新の data 始める,決める.?
'Sounding a little more like yourself, #Voyager1' the account wrote.???
'For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about the health and status of its onboard 工学 systems,' it explained.
'Next step: Enable the 宇宙船 to begin returning science data again.'
The Voyager flight team traced the November glitch 支援する to?a 選び出す/独身 半導体素子 機能不全 in the 'flight data subsystem' (FDS) ? the part 責任がある sending its data 支援する to Earth.
The broken 半導体素子 held some of the computer code necessary for transmitting workable data.?
'The loss of that code (判決などを)下すd the science and 工学 data unusable,' 航空宇宙局 said in a 声明 on Monday.
'Unable to 修理 the 半導体素子, the team decided to place the 影響する/感情d code どこかよそで in the FDS memory.'?
Voyager 1 is famous for snapping photos of Jupiter , Saturn and their moons. Pictured, Saturn taken by the (手先の)技術 in November 1980?
The 10年間s-old 航空宇宙局 Voyager 1 宇宙船 has begun sending readable communications again after months of transmitting gibberish. This artist's illustration 描写するs the (手先の)技術 in space
Voyager 1 解除するd off 頂上に a 巨人 IIIE 開始する,打ち上げる system from Florida's Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977
Voyager 1 is around 15 billion miles (24 billion キロメーターs) from Earth, so 直す/買収する,八百長をするing problems on the (手先の)技術 a is a 抱擁する challenge.?
It's now so far away it takes twenty-two-and-a-half hours for a signal to cover the 広大な distance.?
However, the team's code 実験 worked and the data began to be readable once more.
'Finding 解答s to challenges the 調査(する)s 遭遇(する) often entails 協議するing 初めの, 10年間s-old 文書s written by engineers who didn't 心配する the 問題/発行するs that are arising today,' 航空宇宙局 said in December after the 発見 of the glitch.?
'During the coming weeks, the team will relocate and adjust the other 影響する/感情d 部分s of the FDS ソフトウェア,' 航空宇宙局 said in its updated 声明 on Monday.?
'These 含む the 部分s that will start returning science data.'?
The Voyager was the first human-made 反対する to leave our solar system and enter the space between 星/主役にするs.?
It is famous for returning one of the most 深い尊敬の念を抱くd 天文学の images of all time ? Pale Blue Dot, showing our 惑星 as a spec of dust in the vastness of space.?
Its twin, Voyager 2, is 12.6 billion miles (20 billion キロメーターs) away and is also still 機能の.?
A photo taken by a Voyager 1 宇宙船 of Io, Jupiter's moon. As part of 航空宇宙局's 使節団 in the summer of 1977, two 宇宙船, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 - 同一の in every 詳細(に述べる) - were 開始する,打ち上げるd within 15 days of each other
This colour picture was acquired by Voyager 1 during its approach of Ganymede,?the largest and most 大規模な moon of Jupiter and in the solar system
The 無線で通信する antenna, protruding from the central circular dish like the antenna on a robotic insect, is 平等に archaic, emitting as many ワットs as a refrigerator lightbulb
航空宇宙局 archival image: Engineers working on vibration acoustics and pyro shock 実験(する)ing of 航空宇宙局's Voyager 1, Jet Propulsion 研究室/実験室, Pasadena, November 18, 1976
Both Voyagers 開始する,打ち上げるd from Cape Canaveral in Florida in 1977 ? with Voyager 2 出発/死ing a month earlier than 1.
They have far 越えるd that, however, having been travelling for 46 years.
They were 開始する,打ち上げるd to 調査する all the 巨大(な) 惑星s of our outer solar system ? Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; 48 of their moons; and the unique system of (犯罪の)一味s and 磁石の fields those 惑星s 所有する.?
航空宇宙局 had 定評のある that the mighty Voyager 使節団 cannot continue forever.?
Yet the team hopes to keep the 器具s needed to 送信する/伝染させる data about its 環境 going until at least 2025.
It hopes Voyager 1 will keep travelling through space with 航空宇宙局 able to 跡をつける its どの辺に until around 2036, when its 核の 殴打/砲列s are likely to die, after which it will drift on aimlessly.?
Some of the systems are indeed becoming 時代遅れの; for example, it's 内部の computers have?240,000 times いっそう少なく memory than an iPhone.
The 無線で通信する antenna, protruding from the central circular dish like the antenna on a robotic insect, is 平等に archaic, emitting as many ワットs as a refrigerator lightbulb.
As for the onboard tape recorder, which is 絶えず on, it 異なるs little from the one in a typical 1970s car.?
Jupiter, taken from Voyager 1 at around 12 million miles (20 million kilometres) away in 1979
An annotated image showing the さまざまな parts and 器具s of 航空宇宙局's Voyager space 調査(する) design. Voyager 1 and its 同一の sister (手先の)技術, Voyager 2 were 開始する,打ち上げるd in 1977 to 熟考する/考慮する the outer Solar System and 結局 interstellar space
As for Voyager 2, engineers 推定する/予想する all five of its science 器具s to continue 操作/手術 through 2026.?
Last year,?communications with Voyager 2 were lost when a wrong 命令(する) was given,?原因(となる)ing it to point its antenna just two degrees away from Earth.?
However, the space 機関 said a 'heartbeat' signal had been 選ぶd up during a 正規の/正選手 ざっと目を通す of the sky more than a week later.?
Voyager 2 is still the only 宇宙船 to have visited Uranus and Neptune.?