Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space | BBC News

The US space agency says its Voyager-1 probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth after months of spouting gibberish.

The Nasa spacecraft is humanity's most distant object, being more than 24 billion km (15 billion miles) away.

A computer fault stopped it returning readable data in November but engineers have now fixed this.



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[brianbks]

Voyager 1: "I GOT ONE MORE IN ME"

[JDBD]

To be fair to Voyager 1, I'm not even 30 yet and I barely function.

[envitech]

I'm glad they built it in the 70s, otherwise programmers had to click skip ad every they need to talk to Voyager.

[RealUlrichLeland]

The computer on voyager 1 has about 68 kB of memory. It's amazing that NASA can still do cutting edge science with a computer that's about as powerful as a talking birthday card, even while it's on the edge of the solar system. The software engineers for the voyager program must be some of the best in the world.

[romeshbhat]

Billions of miles away and still sending signals

And my bank's OTP has still not reached me

[splifsend]

45 years and it's almost 1 light day away - 65, 000 years to get to Alpha at that speed

[armyveteranst]

I was 9 years old when the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, and I remember being excited about it as a kid. I will turn 56 years old in three weeks, and it is unbelievable that the spacecraft is still going and working!

[mosshark]

Incredible. This now interstellar spacecraft was built in the bloody 1970's!

[lord_scrubington]

"what on earth is it sending back"
nothing from earth I should imagine

[yeahboyiiiii]

In 2021 NASA put out a job application for someone who could program in Fortran 5. Some un named person took the job and here we are, they got a spacecraft from the 70's working again from 15 Billion miles away. Bravo un named hero.

[JTan]

V-ger trying to contact the creator.

"So, where's it going?"
"Where no one has gone before."

[Donjuanthesecond]

And my iPhones stops working every 4 years

[Machiavellist]

Voyager 1: sends alien signals
NASA scientist: it's sending gibberish

[shmookins]

From Nasa's website:
"It will take about 300 years for Voyager 2 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30, 000 years to fly beyond it.
Voyager 2 is heading away from the Sun about 36 degrees out of the ecliptic plane (plane of the planets) to the south, toward the constellations of Sagittarius and Pavo. In about 40, 000 years, Voyager 2 will be closer to another star than our own Sun, coming within about 1.7 light years of a star called Ross 248, a small star in the constellation of Andromeda."

[Jussle]

Voyager 1: Golden record

San-Ti: "Do Not Answer"

[joji_okami]

Your car's key fob has more memory than the computer on voyager 1. Imagine that.
*edit: i learned that from the Astrum YT channel. shout-out!

[ivanlawrence]

I love that the Dr's background has the new space telescope, dinosaurs, something about OCD, yoga skeleton, and a moose. Also, fixing a computer that has outlived it's creators and is also billions of miles a way is also cool.

[davemanone]

This is the kind of thing that makes me angry with people that attack NASA and say it is a waste of money. "They do so many wonderful things, but sometime things don't go according to plan. Our space program is the best there is and worth every penny. Even when things go wrong there is a lot to learn!

[keithhudson]

NASA: We have a message from Voyager1

Voyager1: BOIIII"

[seventeeen]

These guys took we'll fix it in prod to the next level