In May, NASA scientists said the Voyager 1 spacecraft was sending back inaccurate data from its attitude-control system. The mysterious glitch is still ongoing, according to the mission's engineering team.
After nearly 45 years in space, both spacecraft are still functioning. In 2012, Voyager 1 became the very first human-made object to venture beyond the boundary of our sun's influence, known as the heliopause, and into interstellar space. It's now around"Nobody thought it would last as long as it has," Suzanne Dodd, project manager for the Voyager mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Insider, adding,"And here we are.
"As they retired in the '70s and '80s, there wasn't a big push to have a project document library. People would take their boxes home to their garage," Dodd added. In modern missions, NASA keeps more robust records of documentation. "Getting that information requires you to figure out who works in that area on the project," Dodd said.
"Telemetry data is basically a status on the health of the system," Dodd said. But the telemetry readouts the spacecraft's handlers are getting from the system are garbled, according to Dodd, which means they don't know if the attitude-control system is working properly.So far, Voyager engineers haven't been able to find a root cause for the glitch, mainly because they haven't been able to reset the system, Dodd said.
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