The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: IsailedawayfromFR on May 21, 2022, 07:29:25 pm
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You’re driving along and the “check engine” light flashes amber on your dashboard. Your engine is in no danger at the moment, but you have to get that examined before a real problem develops.
Imagine if your vehicle is nearly a half-century old. And is a spacecraft operating at the edge of the solar system.
Houston, we have a problem.
Or, more correctly, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has one.
It's because the space probe Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is sending data that’s not possible for it to originate, the UK’s Independent reports
“A mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission,” according to NASA project manager Suzanne Dodd.
Essentially, all is well on Voyager 1 -- commands are being performed when received (after a two-day interstellar space delay) -- and apparently, the radio antenna is still properly aimed at earth.
But the probe is sending weird messages about its control systems that could not possibly show what’s actually taking place on board.
It looks like Voyager is happy with it, not having set off any systems for fault protection. It’s just sending out telemetry that apparently has been randomly generated.
http://youtu.be/rl1gtC6kuPg
https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/voyager-1-makes-past-suns-influence-44-years-begins-beaming-back-impossible-data/
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Swell, so now we've planted the seeds for Veeger to come back and destroy us all because we still don't have Captain James Tiberius Kirk to solve the mystery in time.
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Ruh - Roh!
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Swell, so now we've planted the seeds for Veeger to come back and destroy us all because we still don't have Captain James Tiberius Kirk to solve the mystery in time.
Well, that alien sure occupied a memorable spot in the movie
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