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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on May 07, 2010, 05:42

Title: NASA Diagnoses Problem With Voyager 2
Post by: sam on May 07, 2010, 05:42
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What could be happening out near the edge of the solar system? The 33-year-old Voyager 2 spacecraft has experienced an anomaly where the data it sends back is unreadable. To try and understand the problem, engineers at JPL have shifted the spacecraft into a mode where it transmits only spacecraft health and status data. Preliminary engineering data received on May 1 show the spacecraft is basically healthy, and that the source of the issue is the flight data system, which is responsible for formatting the data to send back to Earth.

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/05/06/nasa-diagnoses-problem-with-voyager-2/

--- Voyager 2 makes Cassini look like little kid.
Title: Re: NASA Diagnoses Problem With Voyager 2
Post by: Clive on May 07, 2010, 12:07
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the source of the issue is the flight data system, which is responsible for formatting the data to send back to Earth

Someone must have left Automatic Updates on.   ;D
Title: Re: NASA Diagnoses Problem With Voyager 2
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2010, 12:09
 :laugh: