Since the problems reported in November of last year, Voyager 1’s four fundamental instruments are finally working.
Since the Voyager 1 space probe began to have some serious problems at the end of last year, it has not become fully operational, despite the efforts of the POT.
But there is good news, because as reported by NASA itself, The Voyager 1 spacecraft is now fully operationalsomething that had not happened since the problems reported in November 2023.
The problems began to be resolved last April, when the NASA team began asking the spacecraft to begin returning engineering data, including information about the health and status of the spacecraft.
Then, on May 19, the NASA team executed a second step of the repair process by sending a command to the spacecraft to begin returning scientific data.
At that point, two of the four scientific instruments immediately returned to their normal operating modes, while the others required additional work.
Having finished that additional work, the remaining two instruments are also now fully functional.
In this way, NASA’s four instruments can now study plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles.
Still a long way to go for Voyager 1
The NASA team simply now has to do some small work to take advantage of the fact that all of Voyager 1’s instruments are working again.
It should be remembered that Voyager 1 It is more than 24,000 million kilometers from Earthwhile its sister Voyager 2 is more than 20 billion kilometers from our planet.
At the end of the year, both ships will complete 47 years of operations at the service of humanity, and yet, they are the elements created by humans that have gone the furthest in space.
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