Apr 10, 2024, 12:41 PM IST
Why Voyager 1 Talked Gibberish from Far Away in Space?
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Scientists finally found out what's happening to NASA's pioneering Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System, the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It is the most distant spacecraft to Earth.
It talked gibberish on the interplanetary "radio".
The spacecraft receives and executes commands sent from Earth. However, the flight data system (FDS) was not communicating properly with one telecommunications unit.
Hence, data was reaching Earth, but it was disrupted in the form of ones and zeros.
Finally, the spacecraft revealed the issue when it was asked about it in March in the form of a poke command.
Scientists have found out that three per cent of its memory is corrupted.
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