NASA reconnects with interstellar travel 1 spacecrafts using unused technology since 1981
After a brief pause of communications with Voyager 1, NASA has restored a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion kilometers of the earth, using a frequency not used for more than forty years.
Communication between NASA and travel 1 has sometimes been uneven. In fact, the spacecraft has stopped sending readable data to the NASA jet propulsion laboratory in southern California on November 14, 2023, and it was only until April the mission controllers started to receive orders.
More recently, the spacecraft has disabled one of its two transmitters after what engineers suspected were due to the defective 1 -way 1, which responds to the problems on board.
For example, if the spacecraft uses too much energy from its power source, defect protection will start to keep power by turning off non -essential systems, NASA explained.
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This illustration provided by NASA represents the most distant spaceship from the earth, traveling 1, is observed in this illustration of NASA. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California announced this week that traveling 1s Four Scientific instruments was back in business after a technical problem in November. (NASA via AP, file)
The space agency said the flight team had sent a command to activate one of the radiators in the spaceship on October 16. The command takes almost 23 hours to get from the earth to the spacecraft, then 23 overtime for the data to return.
The engineers suspected that traveling 1 should have had a lot of power to operate the heather, although the fault protection system was triggered.
On October 18, the team learned the problem, because the network of deep spaces could not detect the travel signal 1. The communication between NASA and the spaceship occurs on the X -band radio transmitter, named for the frequency it uses.
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The NASA travel 1 spacecraft is represented in the concept of this artist traveling through the interstellar space, or the space between the stars, in which he entered in 2012. (Credit: NASA / JPL-CALTECH)
The defect protection system lowered the speed that the issuer was able to return data to NASA, the engineers determined, thus modifying the X -band signal that the deep space network was to listen to.
Once the signal is located, traveling 1 seemed to be in a stable state and the team began to investigate what happened.
But on October 19, communication between the team and the travel 1 again arrested, this time entirely.
The team believed that the Voyager 1 defect protection system has been triggered twice more and went to a second radio transmitter called the S band, which uses less power.
NASA restores communication with the interstellar spacecraft travel 1 which is silent for months
The NASA jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California. The JPL said that it would drop 530 workers this week. (NASA / JPL-CALTECH)
Traveling 1 had not used the S band to communicate with the earth since 1981.
The engineers with the depth network were finally able to detect the communication of the spaceship from the S. rather than risking putting the X band before discovering what caused the defect protection system triggered, the team sent an order on October 22 to confirm that the band transmitter worked.
Now, the team works to collect information to help them discover what happened so that they can bring back 1 to normal operations.
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The Odyssey to travel 1 started in 1977 when the spaceship and its twin, traveling 2, were launched during a visit to the giant solar system gas planets.
After bringing back the views of dazzling postcards on the giant red spot of Jupiter and the shimmering rings of Saturn, traveling 2 hopscotchot to Uranus and Neptune. Meanwhile, traveling 1 used Saturn as a gravitational sling to spread before Pluto.
