voyager seeks the creator

[Andysu]

pioneer 10

 

[mhardy6647]

pioneer 10

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Pioneer Series 20

 

[Andysu]

they didn't do audio pioneer , but i think the space probe will make that audio gear beyond expandable universe , redundant obsolete as pioneer will be endless traveling though the universe while the audio will be dust , if you get my understandably meaning ?

 

[Andysu]

voyager is such a complex device
the systems onboard

Voyager - Voyager 2 Returns to Normal Operations

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

 

[mhardy6647]

voyager is such a complex device

Somewhere in Cupertino, an iPhone is snickering quietly...

 

[Andysu]

cutting edge technology that still works better than smart phone

 

[gaz]

"The Farthest" is a wonderful movie about the Voyager mission, with some great music too.

The Farthest - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[fpitas]

cutting edge technology that still works better than smart phone

Well sure. But can you watch Tik-Tok videos on it?

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[mhardy6647]

Well sure. But can you watch Tik-Tok videos on it?

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Only analog videos.

 

[Andysu]

Well sure. But can you watch Tik-Tok videos on it?

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i think voyager will outlast that rubbish tiktok within less than next hundred no years , tik won't last , voyager will keep on travelling , voyager will even outlast , sinad

 

[JSmith]

Voyager 1 is back in action!

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health.

www.space.com

NASA's interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. While the Voyager 1 spacecraft still isn't sending valid science data back to Earth, it is now returning usable information about the health and operating status of its onboard engineering systems.

JSmith

 

[amirm]

It is amazing how they can keep re-writing the firmware this far away.

 

[JSmith]

It is amazing how they can keep re-writing the firmware this far away.

Absolutely, even more so that we still have contact from this distance, 24B km.

Here's a little more info on what happened last week though;

After many tense months, it seems that thanks to a gaggle of brilliant engineering talent and a lucky break the Voyager 1 spacecraft is once more back in action. Confirmation came on April 20th, when Voyager 1 transmitted its first data since it fell silent on November 14 2023. As previously suspected, the issue was a defective memory chip in the flight data system (FDS), which among other things is responsible for preparing the data it receives from other systems before it is transmitted back to Earth. As at this point in time Voyager 1 is at an approximate 24 billion kilometers distance, this made for a few tense days for those involved.

The firmware patch that got sent over on April 18th contained an initial test to validate the theory, moving the code responsible for the engineering data packaging to a new spot in the FDS memory. If the theory was correct, this should mean that this time the correct data should be sent back from Voyager. Twice a 22.5 hour trip and change through Deep Space and back later on April 20th the team was ecstatic to see what they had hoped for.

With this initial test successful, the team can now move on to moving the remaining code away from the faulty memory after which regular science operations should resume, and giving the plucky spacecraft a new lease on life at the still tender age of 46.

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates To Earth

After many tense months, it seems that thanks to a gaggle of brilliant engineering talent and a lucky break the Voyager 1 spacecraft is once more back in action. Confirmation came on April 20th, wh…

hackaday.com

JSmith

 

[007Shortz]

For many years, people racked their brains over the possible causes of the Pioneer anomaly (a deceleration of the probe). After numerous analyses, it turned out that some of the waste heat radiation from the RTG (power generator) was increasingly reflected by the high gain antenna (dish) in the direction of flight and led to the deceleration. A small effect that added up over billions of miles.

Crazy world

 

[007Shortz]

I just had a look and it looks like the flyby anomaly is still unsolved. This is not directly related to Pioneer, but it leaves room for a creator.

 

[voodooless]

It is amazing how they can keep re-writing the firmware this far away.

Fixing firmware is the relatively easy part once you know what's wrong (and fixable at all). What amazes me is that they can debug the issues over such a low-speed interface and that they designed the systems to actually make all of this possible in the first place.

The fix, in this case, is probably really easy: Create a new map file for the linker where you blank out the corrupted memory areas and relink the code.