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Minnesota Voyageur Trail Ultramarathon

Carlton high school, carlton , mn • 50 miler.

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Founded in 1982, the Minnesota Voyageur 50 Mile Trail Ultramarathon is one of the oldest trail ultras in the nation. The race follows a rugged, varied, out-and-back course that takes runners on a journey from Carlton, MN through Jay Cooke State Park and heads northeast over difficult, rough woodland trails to Duluth, MN and back. Enjoy scenic overlooks of Duluth, Lake Superior, and the iconic Swinging Bridge over the St. Louis River. (Note: Course was 48 miles long for first 4 years, 1982-1985. 50 miles ever since.)

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Cost is only $25 if you volunteer at the Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon, on July 13th, 2024. Volunteer opportunities and contact information can be found at: http://www.curnowmarathon.com/volunteering/ If you choose this option, please fill out our Volunteer Sign up Form , and choose the Register > ECTM Volunteer option when registering for the Minnesota Voyageur. Please http://www.curnowmarathon.com/contact-us/ if your ability to volunteer changes. We follow up with registrants that choose this option but do not then volunteer at the Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon.

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NASA hopes to get the Voyager spacecraft to their 50th anniversary with clever engineering and difficult choices

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 are the only human-made objects to reach interstellar space.

The two probes launched in 1977 and may soon lose communication with Earth.

NASA hopes to stay in contact with the probes at least until their 50th anniversary in 2027.

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 for what were meant to be four-year missions. For over 46 years, the pair have been delivering spectacular science far beyond what their first teams of researchers could have hoped.

From close-up views of Jupiter to a stunning look a Saturn's rings , the Voyager probes have helped shape our understanding of the solar system. Voyager 2 is still the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune . They've traveled farther from Earth than any other human-made object.

Solar wind streaming out from the sun and interstellar wind flowing back toward it creates a bubble known as the heliosphere. In 2012, Voyager 1 ventured beyond the heliosphere into interstellar space . Voyager 2 followed in 2018.

Both probes are slowly draining power and will soon lose contact with Earth.

But NASA is coming up with unique solutions to keep communicating with the two Voyagers.

"That's what's most important is keeping these spacecraft operating as long as possible," Suzanne Dodd , NASA's project manager for Voyager, told Business Insider.

Decades of data

Early in their travels, the two spacecraft parted ways. Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth, and Voyager 2 is 12 billion.

As the probes journey farther from our planet, their data becomes more and more valuable. The Voyagers are picking up information on charged particles in interstellar space, including their energy levels, their abundance, and the direction of their magnetic fields.

"They're out of the effects of charged particles from our sun and truly measuring data in interstellar space and measuring how that data changes as they travel further away from us," Dodd said.

She compared it to seeing the difference between waves breaking on the shore and smoothing out deeper in the ocean.

"You would never know that unless you got further out of the ocean, how those waves change," she said.

It would take another 50 years for another vehicle to reach interstellar space, Dodd said. That's why the Voyagers are so valuable.

"They're doing very unique science," she said.

NASA has been turning instruments off to conserve power

The nuclear-powered Voyagers use radioisotope thermoelectric generators that turn heat from decaying plutonium-238 into energy. Originally, the generators provided about 450 watts of power, Dodd said.

Each year, as the plutonium decays, the generators produce about 4 watts less.

"They're down to about 220 watts of power available," Dodd said.

Operating the probes' transmitters requires about 200 watts. Their instruments can use as much as 6 watts each.

Voyager 1 has four instruments running, and Voyager 2 has five.

To conserve power, engineers have shut off heaters and powered down other systems.

"We've done a lot of clever engineering things to be able to keep these instruments on as long as possible, knowing that we have a limited power supply," Dodd said.

"Something could fail that would be catastrophic kind of at any time," she added.

There have been a few near-misses, like when both probes almost failed at launch and when NASA lost communication with Voyager 2 for a few weeks in summer 2023.

By 2026, NASA may have to turn off at least one of Voyager 2's instruments.

"What we're looking at is making the two spacecraft complementary to each other," Dodd said. "You might keep one instrument operating on one spacecraft but turn it off on another."

Down the road, the choices about which instruments to keep running will be more difficult. Dodd said the scientists would likely keep powering the ones that took the least energy.

"And then it's also an evaluation of the science," she said. "What's the most critical science that we get?"

Even after the spacecraft power down, they have one more mission left

When the spacecraft lose communication with Earth, it will essentially be the end of the mission, Dodd said.

But the Voyagers will continue traveling, Dodd said, perhaps for hundreds of thousands of years.

"They'll just be floating out in space and floating around the center, traveling away from us with a gold record that, hopefully, some being, somewhere, will find in the future."

The golden records are phonographs containing images, words, and music meant to explain human life to aliens . Each Voyager probe has a copy.

In the meantime, Dodd isn't quite ready to say goodbye to the Voyagers.

"It's pretty remarkable, into our 47th year, just the whole record of discoveries it's made," she said.

The fact that there are two spacecraft means the chances are pretty good that at least one of them can keep communicating for a few more years, Dodd said.

"I'm very optimistic that we'll get to a 50-year anniversary," she said.

Read the original article on Business Insider

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Speed meets style with launch of Voyager 50 Coupé

Van den Hoven Jachtbouw in the Netherlands has launched the latest member of its innovative Voyager series. Following on from the successful Voyager 61, the new Voyager 50 Coupé combines elegance, speed, space and comfort to perfection. Designed by René van der Velden, the yacht has exceeded expectations in terms of performance and looks even better in the water than she did on paper.

The Voyager 50 combines the best of both worlds, maintaining the impressive comfort levels of her bigger sisters while having seductive looks all of her own. This 15-metre ‘coupé’ yacht has a striking exterior, with her low profile and elegant lines generating a sporty feel. Built entirely in aluminium, she is significantly lighter than comparable steel or composite boats. This translates into a faster acceleration and major savings on fuel consumption, while the sustainability of aluminium as a material adds to the attractions.

High-end comfort

Like all yachts in the Voyager line, the 50 Coupéhas been developed for owners looking to sail further in less time. The performance since the launch of the first model has confirmed that the Voyager 50 Coupé is everything one would expect and more. Powered by twin Volvo Penta 480 hp engines, the yacht has a top speed of 22 knots and impressive manoeuvrability. The considerable time and energy devoted to sound and vibration attenuation has paid off, making longer stays onboard very pleasant indeed. In fact, the Voyager 50 must surely be one of the quietest and most relaxed 50-footers on the market today.

Superb use of space

This compact and luxurious motoryacht makes the most of its space too. A vertical windscreen gives the saloon a remarkable amount of extra volume compared to similarly sized yachts with traditional rear slanted windshields. Another key interior asset is the way the saloon, fully equipped galley and helm station are all found on the same level, ensuring that everyone feels part of the fun when sailing. The panoramic 360-degree views from the saloon make this a popular gathering place in all weathers. Below decks the Voyager 50 features a spacious owner’s suite with its own bathroom plus two guest cabins with four berths and a shared bathroom.

Outdoor pleasures

Moving outside, the wide gangways provide ample room to move safely from fore to aft. The foredeck has a range of tempting sunbeds and seating, the ideal spot to observe the yacht’s steady progress. A cosy aft deck is set up for al fresco lounging and dining while the stern features a clever storage space with an electrically operated hatch to store bicycles, water-skis, sups and more. There is also a hydraulic swimming platform, which future clients could adapt to carry a tender of up to 3.85 metres if required.

A yacht for all ages

The Voyager 50 Coupé offers maximum comfort at all speeds. The configuration and sporty appearance of this 50-footer will appeal to younger owners, while the single-level layout and low entry make the yacht attractive to older clients too. Simple to sail, moor and operate, the Voyager 50 is ideal both as a weekender and for longer excursions.

LENGTH hull                            14.99 m

LOA                                            15.33 M       

BEAM                                         4.80 M 

DRAUGHT                                  1.18 M 

WEIGHT                                     26 TONNES 

ENGINE                                      2X VOLVO PENTA D6- 480 HP

FUEL                                          DIESEL 

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VOYAGER 50 OPENS UP NEW HORIZONS

Offering an abundance of sailing comfort at all speeds, the new Voyager 50 makes Van den Hoven Jachtbouw enter a whole new market.   The configuration and sporty looks of this 50-footer will appeal to younger owners, with or without guests, while the single-level layout and low entry makes the yacht attractive to older clients too. The yacht will be extremely manoeuvrable and easy to sail, moor and operate, making it the ideal weekender for a quick trip. High comfort levels ensure the Voyager 50 is very suitable for longer stays on board too.

Although the exterior of the 15-metre ‘coupé’ yacht follows the concept of previous Voyagers, her compact and stretched lines make for a faster look. With a typically Mediterranean feel, the design by René van der Velden features a spacious open cockpit that will host lots of outdoor fun. The gangways provide plenty of space to move around safely, while the large yet cosy aft deck is perfect for al fresco lounging and dining with loved ones or guests.  

OPEN COCKPIT AND LOTS OF OUTDOOR LIVING

The Voyager 50 features an impressive amount of storage space for bicycles. An optional hydraulic swim platform can accommodate a tender of up to 3.85 metres. For optimal comfort, the owner can choose to install two 60 m² stabilisers and HE750 Humphree interceptors.  

The vertical windscreen gives the saloon a remarkable amount of indoor space compared to similarly sized yachts, comfortably seating eight people. The interior also includes a well-equipped galley, three cabins with six beds and two bathrooms.

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Because the Voyager 50 is built entirely in aluminium, it is fully adaptable to your wishes. This includes the interior, materials and equipment too. The yacht’s performance is as you would expect from a Van den Hoven: a perfect combination of comfort, speed and manoeuvrability. The standard bow and sternthruster make mooring and unmooring as easy and safe as can be, while the 480 hp engine gives you a top speed of 22 knots.   

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For more than 50 years, Deep Space Station 43 has been an invaluable tool for space probes as they explore our solar system and push into the beyond. The DSS-43 radio antenna, located at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , near Canberra, Australia, keeps open the line of communication between humans and probes during NASA missions.

Today more than 40 percent of all data retrieved by celestial explorers, including Voyagers , New Horizons , and the Mars Curiosity rover , comes through DSS-43.

“As Australia’s largest antenna, DSS-43 has provided two-way communication with dozens of robotic spacecraft,” IEEE President-Elect Kathleen Kramer said during a ceremony where the antenna was recognized as an IEEE Milestone . It has supported missions, Kramer noted, “from the Apollo program and NASA’s Mars exploration rovers such as Spirit and Opportunity to the Voyagers’ grand tour of the solar system.

“In fact,” she said, “it is the only antenna remaining on Earth capable of communicating with Voyager 2 .”

Why NASA needed DSS-43

Maintaining two-way contact with spacecraft hurtling billions of kilometers away across the solar system is no mean feat. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , in Pasadena, Calif., knew that communication with distant space probes would require a dish antenna with unprecedented accuracy. In 1964 they built DSS-42—DSS-43’s predecessor—to support NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft as it performed the first-ever successful flyby of Mars in July 1965. The antenna had a 26-meter-diameter dish. Along with two other antennas at JPL and in Spain, DSS-42 obtained the first close-up images of Mars. DSS-42 was retired in 2000.

NASA engineers predicted that to carry out missions beyond Mars, the space agency needed more sensitive antennas. So in 1969 they began work on DSS-43, which has a 64-meter-diameter dish.

DSS-43 was brought online in December 1972—just in time to receive video and audio transmissions sent by Apollo 17 from the surface of the moon. It had greater reach and sensitivity than DSS-42 even after 42’s dish was upgraded in the early 1980s.

The gap between the two antennas’ capabilities widened in 1987, when DSS-43 was equipped with a 70-meter dish in anticipation of Voyager 2’s 1989 encounter with the planet Neptune.

DSS-43 has been indispensable in maintaining contact with the deep-space probe ever since.

The dish’s size isn’t its only remarkable feature. The dish’s manufacturer took great pains to ensure that its surface had no bumps or rough spots. The smoother the dish surface, the better it is at focusing incident waves onto the signal detector so there’s a higher signal-to-noise ratio.

DSS-43 boasts a pointing accuracy of 0.005 degrees (18 arc seconds)—which is important for ensuring that it is pointed directly at the receiver on a distant spacecraft. Voyager 2 broadcasts using a 23-watt radio. But by the time the signals traverse the multibillion-kilometer distance from the heliopause to Earth, their power has faded to a level 20 billion times weaker than what is needed to run a digital watch. Capturing every bit of the incident signals is crucial to gathering useful information from the transmissions.

The antenna has a transmitter capable of 400 kilowatts, with a beam width of 0.0038 degrees. Without the 1987 upgrade, signals sent from DSS-43 to a spacecraft venturing outside the solar system likely never would reach their target.

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The Canberra Deep Space Complex, where DSS-43 resides, is one of three such tracking stations operated by JPL. The other two are DSS-11 at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, Calif., and DSS-63 at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Robledo de Chavela, Spain. Together, the facilities make up the Deep Space Network, which is the most sensitive scientific telecommunications system on the planet, according to NASA. At any given time, the network is tracking dozens of spacecraft carrying out scientific missions. The three facilities are spaced about 120 degrees longitude apart. The strategic placement ensures that as the Earth rotates, at least one of the antennas has a line of sight to an object being tracked, at least for those close to the plane of the solar system.

But DSS-43 is the only member of the trio that can maintain contact with Voyager 2 . Ever since its flyby of Neptune’s moon Triton in 1989, Voyager 2 has been on a trajectory below the plane of the planets, so that it no longer has a line of sight with any radio antennas in the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere.

To ensure that DSS-43 can still place the longest of long-distance calls, the antenna underwent a round of updates in 2020. A new X-band cone was installed. DSS-43 transmits radio signals in the X (8 to 12 gigahertz) and S (2 to 4 GHz) bands; it can receive signals in the X, S, L (1 to 2 GHz), and K (12 to 40 GHz) bands. The dish’s pointing accuracy also was tested and recertified.

Once the updates were completed, test commands were sent to Voyager 2. After about 37 hours, DSS-43 received a response from the space probe confirming it had received the call, and it executed the test commands with no issues.

DSS-43 is still relaying signals between Earth and Voyager 2, which passed the heliopause in 2018 and is now some 20 billion km from Earth.

Other important missions

DSS-43 has played a vital role in missions closer to Earth as well, including NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. When the space agency sent Curiosity , a golf cart–size rover, to explore the Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars in 2011, DSS-43 tracked Curiosity as it made its nail-biting seven-minute descent into Mars’s atmosphere. It took roughly 20 minutes for radio signals to traverse the 320-million km distance between Mars and Earth, and then DSS-43 delivered the good news: The rover had landed safely and was operational.

“NASA plans to send future generations of astronauts from the Moon to Mars, and DSS-43 will play an important role as part of NASA’s Deep Space Network,” says Ambarish Natu , an IEEE senior member who is a past chair of the IEEE Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Section.

DSS-43 was honored with an IEEE Milestone in March during a ceremony held at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.

“This is the second IEEE Milestone recognition given in Australia, and the first for ACT,” Lance Fung , IEEE Region 10 director, said during the ceremony. A plaque recognizing the technology is now displayed at the complex. It reads:

First operational in 1972 and later upgraded in 1987, Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43) is a steerable parabolic antenna that supported the Apollo 17 lunar mission, Viking Mars landers, Pioneer and Mariner planetary probes, and Voyager’s encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Planning for many robotic and human missions to explore the solar system and beyond has included DSS-43 for critical communications and tracking in NASA’s Deep Space Network.

Administered by the IEEE History Center and supported by donors, the Milestone program recognizes outstanding technical developments around the world. The IEEE Australian Capital Territory Section sponsored the nomination.

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First human-made object to go out of solar system has been in operation for almost 50 years and crossed into interstellar space in 2012.

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Earth’s most distant spacecraft, Voyager 1, has started communicating properly again with Nasa after engineers worked for months to remotely fix the 46-year-old probe.

Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which makes and operates the agency’s robotic spacecraft, said in December that the probe – more than 24 billion km away – was sending gibberish code back to Earth.

In an update released on Monday, JPL announced the mission team had managed “after some inventive sleuthing” to receive usable data about the health and status of Voyager 1’s engineering systems. “The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again,” JPL said. Despite the fault, Voyager 1 had operated normally throughout, it added.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 was designed with the primary goal of conducting close-up studies of Jupiter and Saturn in a five-year mission. However, its journey continued and the spacecraft is now approaching a half-century in operation.

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Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, making it the first human-made object to venture out of the solar system. It is currently travelling at 60,821km/h.

The recent problem was related to one of the spacecraft’s three on-board computers, which are responsible for packaging the science and engineering data before it is sent to Earth. Unable to repair a broken chip, the JPL team decided to move the corrupted code elsewhere, a tricky job considering the old technology.

The computers on Voyager 1 and its sister probe, Voyager 2, have less than 70 kilobytes of memory in total – the equivalent of a low-resolution computer image. They use old-fashioned digital tape to record data.

The fix was transmitted from Earth on April 18th but it took two days to assess if it had been successful as a radio signal takes about 22½ hours to reach Voyager 1 and another 22½ for a response to come back to Earth.

“When the mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft on 20 April, they saw that the modification worked,” JPL said.

Alongside its announcement, JPL posted a photo of members of the Voyager flight team cheering and clapping in a conference room after receiving usable data again, with laptops, notebooks and doughnuts on the table in front of them.

Hi, it's me. - V1 https://t.co/jgGFBfxIOe — NASA Voyager (@NASAVoyager) April 22, 2024

The Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who flew two space shuttle missions and acted as commander of the International Space Station, compared the JPL mission to long-distance maintenance on a vintage car.

“Imagine a computer chip fails in your 1977 vehicle. Now imagine it’s in interstellar space, 15bn miles away,” Mr Hadfield wrote on X. “Nasa’s Voyager probe just got fixed by this team of brilliant software mechanics.

Voyager 1 and 2 have made numerous scientific discoveries, including taking detailed recordings of Saturn and revealing that Jupiter also has rings, as well as active volcanism on one of its moons, Io. The probes later discovered 23 new moons around the outer planets.

As their trajectory takes them so far from the sun, the Voyager probes are unable to use solar panels, instead converting the heat produced from the natural radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity to power the spacecraft’s systems.

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Members of the Voyager team celebrate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in months. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption

Members of the Voyager team celebrate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in months.

NASA says it is once again able to get meaningful information back from the Voyager 1 probe, after months of troubleshooting a glitch that had this venerable spacecraft sending home messages that made no sense.

The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes launched in 1977 on a mission to study Jupiter and Saturn but continued onward through the outer reaches of the solar system. In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space, the previously unexplored region between the stars. (Its twin, traveling in a different direction, followed suit six years later.)

Voyager 1 had been faithfully sending back readings about this mysterious new environment for years — until November, when its messages suddenly became incoherent .

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried

It was a serious problem that had longtime Voyager scientists worried that this historic space mission wouldn't be able to recover. They'd hoped to be able to get precious readings from the spacecraft for at least a few more years, until its power ran out and its very last science instrument quit working.

For the last five months, a small team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has been working to fix it. The team finally pinpointed the problem to a memory chip and figured out how to restore some essential software code.

"When the mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft on April 20, they saw that the modification worked: For the first time in five months, they have been able to check the health and status of the spacecraft," NASA stated in an update.

The usable data being returned so far concerns the workings of the spacecraft's engineering systems. In the coming weeks, the team will do more of this software repair work so that Voyager 1 will also be able to send science data, letting researchers once again see what the probe encounters as it journeys through interstellar space.

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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.

Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away, and at 46 years old, the probe has shown multiple quirks and signs of aging in recent years.

The latest issue experienced by Voyager 1 first cropped up in November 2023, when the flight data system's telemetry modulation unit began sending an indecipherable repeating pattern of code.

Voyager 1's flight data system collects information from the spacecraft's science instruments and bundles it with engineering data that reflects its current health status. Mission control on Earth receives that data in binary code, or a series of ones and zeroes.

But since November, Voyager 1's flight data system had been stuck in a loop. While the probe has continued to relay a steady radio signal to its mission control team on Earth over the past few months, the signal did not carry any usable data.

The mission team received the first coherent data about the health and status of Voyager 1's engineering systems on April 20. While the team is still reviewing the information, everything they've seen so far suggests Voyager 1 is healthy and operating properly.

"Today was a great day for Voyager 1," said Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist at JPL, in a statement Saturday. "We're back in communication with the spacecraft. And we look forward to getting science data back."

The breakthrough came as the result of a clever bit of trial and error and the unraveling of a mystery that led the team to a single chip.

Troubleshooting from billions of miles away

After discovering the issue, the mission team attempted sending commands to restart the spacecraft's computer system and learn more about the underlying cause of the problem.

The team sent a command called a "poke" to Voyager 1 on March 1 to get the flight data system to run different software sequences in the hopes of finding out what was causing the glitch.

On March 3, the team noticed that activity from one part of the flight data system stood out from the rest of the garbled data. While the signal wasn't in the format the Voyager team is used to seeing when the flight data system is functioning as expected, an engineer with NASA's Deep Space Network was able to decode it.

The Deep Space Network is a system of radio antennae on Earth that help the agency communicate with the Voyager probes and other spacecraft exploring our solar system.

The decoded signal included a readout of the entire flight data system's memory.

By investigating the readout, the team determined the cause of the issue: 3% of the flight data system's memory is corrupted. A single chip responsible for storing part of the system's memory, including some of the computer's software code, isn't working properly. While the cause of the chip's failure is unknown, it could be worn out or may have been hit by an energetic particle from space, the team said.

The loss of the code on the chip caused Voyager 1's science and engineering data to be unusable.

Since there was no way to repair the chip, the team opted to store the affected code from the chip elsewhere in the system's memory. While they couldn't pinpoint a location large enough to hold all of the code, they were able to divide the code into sections and store it in different spots within the flight data system.

"To make this plan work, they also needed to adjust those code sections to ensure, for example, that they all still function as a whole," according to an update from NASA. "Any references to the location of that code in other parts of the (flight data system) memory needed to be updated as well."

After determining the code necessary for packaging Voyager 1's engineering data, engineers sent a radio signal to the probe commanding the code to a new location in the system's memory on April 18.

Given Voyager 1's immense distance from Earth, it takes a radio signal about 22.5 hours to reach the probe, and another 22.5 hours for a response signal from the spacecraft to reach Earth.

On April 20, the team received Voyager 1's response indicating that the clever code modification had worked, and they could finally receive readable engineering data from the probe once more.

Exploring interstellar space

Within the coming weeks, the team will continue to relocate other affected parts of the system's software, including those responsible for returning the valuable science data Voyager 1 is collecting.

Initially designed to last five years, the Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, launched in 1977 and are the longest-operating spacecraft in history. Their exceptionally long life spans mean that both spacecraft have provided additional insights about our solar system and beyond after achieving their preliminary goals of flying by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune decades ago.

The probes are currently venturing through uncharted cosmic territory along the outer reaches of the solar system. Both are in interstellar space and are the only spacecraft ever to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun's bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Voyager 2, which is operating normally, has traveled more than 12.6 billion miles (20.3 billion kilometers) from our planet.

Over time, both spacecraft have encountered unexpected issues and dropouts, including a seven-month period in 2020 when Voyager 2 couldn't communicate with Earth. In August 2023, the mission team used a long-shot "shout" technique to restore communications with Voyager 2 after a command inadvertently oriented the spacecraft's antenna in the wrong direction.

The team estimates it's a few weeks away from receiving science data from Voyager 1 and looks forward to seeing what that data contains.

"We never know for sure what's going to happen with the Voyagers, but it constantly amazes me when they just keep going," said Voyager Project Manager Suzanne Dodd, in a statement. "We've had many anomalies, and they are getting harder. But we've been fortunate so far to recover from them. And the mission keeps going. And younger engineers are coming onto the Voyager team and contributing their knowledge to keep the mission going."

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense.

The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data.

It takes 22 1/2 hours to send a signal to Voyager 1, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away in interstellar space. The signal travel time is double that for a round trip.

Contact was never lost, rather it was like making a phone call where you can’t hear the person on the other end, a JPL spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space — the space between star systems — since 2012. Its twin, Voyager 2, is 12.6 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) away and still working fine.

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Voyager 1 is sending usable data again for the first time since breaking down nearly 50 years into its deep space journey

Nasa's voyager 1 stopped sending readable data in november 2023.

Poppy Bilderbeck

NASA has revealed it's received data from Voyager 1 for the first time in five months.

Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 - the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space - first began their journey in late 1977, however 46 years later, Voyager 1 stopped sending 'readable' data back to Earth .

The Voyager program

Voyager 1 was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 - 16 days after its twin Voyager 2.

The unmanned device is part of the Voyager program studying Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets.

The device was only designed to last five years so it's continued to give us insights into space beyond its original completed mission, having also studied the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere.

But on November 14 2023, an issue arose for the program. Despite still receiving commands from those down on Earth, Voyager 1 stopped sending 'readable science and engineering data' back.

Given the fact Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles away from Earth, finding the root cause of the issue from such a distance could have proven tricky.

Alas, last month, the Voyager engineering team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California pinpointed what the issue was.

It was determined Voyager 1's three onboard computers known as the flight data subsystem (FDS) - responsible for 'packaging the science and engineering data' before it gets sent to Earth - were malfunctioning in some way.

NASA's team later discovered the root cause of the problem was a single chip in the FDS - which stored some of the FDS' memory alongside software code which helped package the data and make it readable to the team back on Earth.

Sadly, the chip couldn't be repaired.

The solution

So, the Voyager engineering team divided the software code which had been stored on the chip into smaller sections.

They then placed those smaller groups of code onto the FDS spread out in different locations, adapting parts of the code as they went to make sure they'd all still work together despite now being located in different areas.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains : "The team started by singling out the code responsible for packaging the spacecraft’s engineering data. They sent it to its new location in the FDS memory on April 18.

"A radio signal takes about 22 ½ hours to reach Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and another 22 ½ hours for a signal to come back to Earth."

Thankfully, NASA revealed on Monday (April 22), that Voyager 1 has since resumed sending engineering updates to Earth, the team having heard back from the spacecraft on April 20 meaning the modification to the FDS and its code had been successful.

They could now check the 'health and status' of Voyager 1 - something they hadn't been able to do in five months.

NASA explained: "During the coming weeks, the team will relocate and adjust the other affected portions of the FDS software. These include the portions that will start returning science data."

Thankfully, Voyager 2 continues to run as normal.

Topics:  NASA , Science , Space , Technology

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.

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