The aging power-challenged Voyager 1 spacecraft suffered another glitch 2 weeks ago – it stopped calling home on its regular channel. Here is the sequence of events that transpired -
Oct 16 – Command sent to turn on a heater
Oct 18 – X-band signal lost; team surmised that the power-overload triggered the fault protection system and Voyager switched to a low-rate low-power X-band mode
Oct 18 – DSN looked for lower-rate X-band signal and found it
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https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/28/after-pause-nasas-voyager-1-communicating-with-mission-team/
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The Voyager spacecraft - takes a licking and keeps on ticking 💪
Voyager 1 seems to have made a full recovery from its recent power-surge caused illness. It is now communicating at the normal data rate of 160 bps using its X-band transmitter.
:mastodance:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
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The NASA Voyager team today posted a summary of the events that caused Voyager 1 to switch its transmitter from X-band to S-band more than a month ago, how they recovered the system and some info on the power supply status on the spacecraft.
Please see the rest of this thread for details 😉
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/11/26/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-regular-operations-after-communications-pause/
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