The Voyager 1 spacecraft sends information back to Earth after five months without sending signals

CAfter five months, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has sent signals back to Earth. This is the probe The furthest from our planet, meanwhile, is the one that has been in space the longest, having been launched 46 years ago in the company of another twin spacecraft, Voyager 2.. Last November, the last data shipment was recorded, so this news was celebrated with great optimism at the North American space agency.

I have sent the ship Data that can be read about its condition internally and externally, as confirmed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. After this news NASA hopes that the spacecraft will be able to transmit scientific data again as soon as possibleAlthough this cannot be guaranteed either. Voyager 1 stopped sending readable data last November, despite the presence of its control modules They reviewed its condition and noted that the ship was receiving orders and operating as usual.so initially the problem location could not be located.

But during the month of March, the team responsible for monitoring the ship was able to confirm this It all came from a problem with one of the three on-board computers, where it was discovered that the chip that was supposed to store part of that computer's memory was not working properly.. This means that the data sent by Voyager 1 was unreadThis is something that could have been solved Modify the program code It was affected remotely, making Voyager 1's signals readable again.

Started in 1977

Both Voyager 1 and its sister ship Voyager 2 were It was launched into space in 1977. He was They're designed to last for five years, but they've been sending information from space for 46 years. Since then, they have been sending data about our solar system back to Earth, as well as flying around it Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Specifically, Voyager 1 is currently on the verge of… 24 billion kilometers away.