FDS and TMU, however, have been having trouble communicating with each other.
The team behind the mission believes an issue with FDS is the source of the communication breakdown.
Voyager 1 and its sister ship Voyager 2 have been active longer than any other spacecraft in history.
An artist’s depiction of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.Illustration: Caltech/NASA-JPL
An impressive feat, but one that comes with unique challenges.
This isnt the first time Voyager 1 stopped making sense.
Last year, the space probe begantransmitting garbled telemetry datathat didnt match up with its actual location and orientation.
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