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Awesome! NASA fixes glitch in the iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft flying 14,623,292,784 miles away
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Awesome! NASA fixes glitch in the iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft flying 14,623,292,784 miles away

[ad_1] NASA engineers have solved the data glitch in Voyager 1, the 45-year-old space craft investigating the cosmos outside our solar system. NASA engineers have repaired the “data glitch” detected on Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is a 45-year-old space explorer investigating the cosmos outside our solar system. Earlier this year in May, Voyager 1's attitude articulation and control system (AACS) that keeps its antenna pointed in the right direction towards Earth started sending weird, garbled telemetry data about its activities and health to mission controllers. However, the Voyager team had tracked down the source of the data glitch and fixed it. “The team has since located the source of the garbled information: The AACS had...