Nasa Has Solved The Mystery Of Voyager 1 S Strange Data Transmissions
NASA engineers have found the bug that was causing critical instruments on the four-decade-old spacecraft to send “garbled” health information to mission controllers on Earth. Voyager 1’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS), which keeps its antenna directed at Earth, earlier this year started to send back information that didn’t reflect what was actually happening onboard. The AACS appeared to be functioning normally, but the data it was sending back was deemed invalid because it didn’t match any possible state the system could be in....