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NASA's Voyager 1 Is Sending Back Mysterious Data From Beyond Our Solar System - ScienceAlert

NASA's Voyager 1 Is Sending Back Mysterious Data From Beyond Our Solar System - ScienceAlert

NASA's Voyager 1 Is Sending Back Mysterious Data From Beyond Our Solar System - ScienceAlert
May 20, 2022 34 secs

The AACS is essential for Voyager to send NASA data about its surrounding interstellar environment as it keeps the craft's antenna pointing right at our planet.

"A mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission," Suzanne Dodd, a project manager for Voyager 1 and 2 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement.

NASA said that from what its engineers can tell, Voyager 1's AACS is sending randomly generated data that does not "reflect what's actually happening onboard." But even if system data suggests otherwise, the spacecraft's antenna seems to be properly aligned — it is receiving and executing commands from NASA and sending data back to Earth.

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