How NASA saved Voyager 1

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On November 14, 2023, Voyager 1 started sending back gibberish. Many, including those who worked on the spacecraft, thought this might be the end for the spacecraft. But the science and engineering team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory persevered. With some ingenious interstellar troubleshooting and firmware updates from 15 billion miles away, NASA’s team at JPL pulled off a miracle. Here's how they did it.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - The problem
04:14 - The history
07:32 - The solution
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@ARWest-bp4yb Ай бұрын

It's good to see NASA still has the old 'can do' spirit!👍👍

@rjung_ch Ай бұрын

Now that's a bunch of great engineers, a firmware update from 15 billion miles away, just super class of people.

@coulie27 Ай бұрын

Extraordinary they're still receiving data and able to troubleshoot from so far (and such a longtime) away!!

@terrya448 Ай бұрын

That was a wonderful story. Thanks!

@Tinman_56 Ай бұрын

It's amazing that there are coders that can still communicate in the specific binary language of the day and understand the problem. 46 year old code is not today's code.😊

@GenXCoder Ай бұрын

We are called Engineers.

@Tinman_56 Ай бұрын

@@GenXCoder Yet, you have "Coder" in your handle!🤣🤣In my day, coders were programmers, engineers operated trains. Cobol, C+, C++, Fortran, ALGOL, BASIC are not the computer languages of today. I'd vetnure to say that today's "Engineers" would have a difficult time with the 'old school' computer languages and be effective to resolve issues with Voyager 1 and 2 or other spacecraft from that era.🤔🤔

@GenXCoder Ай бұрын

@@Tinman_56 Yes, unfortunately GenXSoftwareSystemsNetworkElectronicsEngineer doesn't have the same hook in today's parlance. Back in the day we had to know how things worked in order to make things work. Most of that knowledge requirement has been abstracted away. It's a shame too because having to know that extra knowledge I think made for better solutions.

@the80hdgaming Ай бұрын

The Voyager craft were programmed in Fortran 5...

@alexhajnal107 28 күн бұрын

@@the80hdgaming Surprised they weren't still using assembler at the time. (Not being sarcastic.) I seem to recall that some of the flight computers around that time were based on IBM's System/360 so that would simplify using HLLs. Not sure what design the Voyager CPUs used though.

@scottymoondogjakubin4766 Ай бұрын

My 2 favorite spacecraft ever !

@67comet Ай бұрын

How do we all get so attached to these things? I mean, I was 8 when these two launched so they've been in my news world for as long as I can really remember. Hubble was launched when I joined the military (same year), so it has been part of my life through my 23-year career. Spirit and Opportunity were the first two spacecraft I followed from takeoff to bouncy landing, and the first "live" NASA feed I ever watched of the landings. I was touched when they had to be shut down. I will definitely feel a void when the two Voyager's reach EOL. Here's to feeling the same thing for Hubble and JWST when they reach their last days of usefulness. I was alive for the Apollo missions, but I was busy filling my cloth diapers with putrid baby crap, sucking on my toes, and puking green peas up onto the yellow linoleum floor of the kitchen from my high chair.

@pucmahone3893 Ай бұрын

Thank you for that! It is amazing what can be done from such a long distance. But persistence seems to always pay out great job to the engineers. !

@antoniorocha9438 Ай бұрын

It is really a state of art of engineering, salute to all involved in such monumental achievement.

@jokerace8227 Ай бұрын

It's impressive that the Voyager 1 and 2 hardware has endured so well, and quite impressive that we can even communicate with the Voyagers from that far away, especially given their very low antenna output wattage power. They are in an unvisited space environment, so the longer we can get data about that environment out of them, the better, imo.

@antiquatedflatulence1607 Ай бұрын

All this going on with the Voyager spacecrafts reminds me of the movie "Star Trek the Motion Picture".😊

@trujillolupita 27 күн бұрын

Congratulations! Have the same team to resolve the Starliner stuck at ISS.

@markhuebner7580 Ай бұрын

Great show! Thanks!

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@bitwise2832 Ай бұрын

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@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Ай бұрын

Great video, Swapna...👍

@phvaguiar Ай бұрын

Hey, nice to meet you

@EricPham-gr8pg 18 күн бұрын

Entangle with center of gravity of voyager 1 then move it in better route for better communication with earth

@ojobee Ай бұрын

So at what point will our solar system gravitational pull pull voyagers? When do we leave them behind?

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx Ай бұрын

That is the question: will we leave them, or will they leave us behind? NASA graphics show that they leave the system either to the front or sideways. I've never seen a graphic that explicitely shows this detail. 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

@Hobbes746 Ай бұрын

The Voyagers have reached escape speed: they’re fast enough to leave the solar system entirely. They got to that point during the planetary flybys: they picked up a lot of speed from those.

@Zookeeper. Ай бұрын

Yeah for rising from dead spaces 😊

@daleb5967 27 күн бұрын

Dayum you fine.....😎

@billyk.2153 Ай бұрын

damm u look prettierr and sunder......

@daveminion6209 20 күн бұрын

love how every video 'claims' that Voyager communicates in 'binary', ones and zeros. NEWS FLASH: anything that communicates with a digital device has to use some form of binary, base two, as it is the basis for all modern digital communications, lol.