The post NASA’S Out Of The Box Thinking Brings Voyager Probe Back Online first on TwistedSifter.

NASA engineers spent months doggedly trying to fix a computer on Voyager 1, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s that’s now ...

Related: We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix In March, ...

Engineers from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered a single computer chip inside the spacecraft’s Flight Data Subsystem – which collects science and engineering information and t ...

which is called the Flight Data Subsystem (FDS). The FDS packages the data collected by the spacecraft before sending it back to earth. Engineers discovered the chip responsible for storing a ...

In December 2023, the JPL announced the problem was with one of Voyager 1's onboard computers called the flight data subsystem (FDS). Engineers attempted to restart the computer, but the problem ...

Last month, the craft's engineering team was able to confirm that the issue was related to one of the three onboard computers that make up Voyager 1's flight data subsystem. That system is what ...

called the flight data subsystem,” NASA said. This subsystem is critical in packaging the science and engineering data before all the data goes back to Earth, the space agency continued.

The third is the flight data subsystem, which takes science and engineering data and packages it for transmission home. Something had gone wrong somewhere in that trio of computers. Maybe a ...

called the flight data subsystem (FDS). The FDS is responsible for packaging the science and engineering data before it's sent to Earth. The team discovered that a single chip responsible for ...

Voyager 1’s engineering team traced the problem back to a malfunctioning chip in the probe’s flight data subsystem, one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers. The chip issue affected ...