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Voyager 1 Is Sending Back Weird Telemetry Data
| All signs suggest all onboard systems are still working, but the telemetry data they're returning is invalid. For instance, the data may appear to be randomly generated, or does not reflect any possible state the Voyager 1 could be in.
The issue hasn't triggered any onboard fault protection systems. Voyager 1's signal hasn't weakened, either, which suggests its high-gain antenna remains in its prescribed orientation with Earth.
| The team will continue to monitor the signal closely as they continue to determine what is involved in producing and sending the impossible telemetry data.
Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles (23.3 billion kilometers) from Earth, and it takes light 20 hours and 33 minutes to travel that difference. That means it takes roughly two days to send a message to Voyager 1 and get a response.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/engineers-investigating-nasas-voyager-1-telemetry-data
| Terminator came from the future and is messing with NASA first so they don't discover the invisible moon base
| Might be voyager just crossed the boundary to another before unknown layer of the solar system. Intergalactic travel becomes more and more impossible...
| Maybe the interference is from some other celestial source. Would be cool if they were to analyze some of these random signals and telemetry data to see if there is a pattern.
| Voyager 1 reached outside of rendered universe, resulting in buffer overflow of computing platform that runs the simulation.
| >>861077
'The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That’s funny...” ' —Isaac Asimov
| If it's anything like telemetry that is in windows 10 then where is the shock?
| don't worry it's just 167d92 shoveling cum in the void. cum is bad for sensors
| >>861091
At first they thought it was interference, but now they're starting to think the data stems from a signal. In the middle of the recording there's a repeating count in base 6. I can't think of a natural phenomenon that would account for that. (But who uses base six?)
| So? What's your problem? Send weird data back!
| The Voyager and Pioneer-spacecrafts already sent unsolicited dick picks to outer space. Isn't that weird enough?
| >>862171
>who uses base 6
Something that evolved with 6 manipulators. 3 fingers on each hand if it were a human, I would think.
Or some weird pulsar.
| I'm looking forwards to those alien lolis
| >>862674
Insects have 6 legs and use honeycomb patterns. I'm not saying it's interdimentional alien insects, but it's interdimentional alien insects.
| Aliens leaving us on read, very sad
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| The engineering team with NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: The interstellar explorer is operating normally, receiving and executing commands from Earth, along with gathering and returning science data. But readouts from the probe's attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don't reflect what's actually happening onboard.