The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude ...
WEBJul 9, 2017 · One of the first design decisions made about the Voyager computers was the use of the Viking Computer Command System (CCS). This not only satisfied a proposal to standardize the computer system but was also a decision fuelled by NASA budget cuts after the Apollo missions in the 1970s.
Voyager 1 - Wikipedia
WEBVoyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2 .
Voyager program - Wikipedia
WEBThe Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, to fly near them while collecting data for transmission back to Earth.
The Computers Of Voyager - Hackaday
WEBMay 6, 2024 · Voyager was the first unmanned mission to include distributed computing, partly because the sheer number of tasks to be executed with precision during the high-stakes planetary fly-bys...
How NASA fixed a problem on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles away
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Working from more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers have solved a computer problem aboard Voyager 1, allowing the probe to send readable data five months after a chip error made its...
Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally …
WEBApr 23, 2024 · Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity's first interstellar...
Voyager 1 resumes study of uncharted cosmic territory after computer …
WEBJun 18, 2024 · The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of scientific data from uncharted territory for the first time since a computer glitch sidelined the historic NASA mission seven...
Spacecraft - NASA Science
WEBThe identical Voyager spacecraft are three-axis stabilized systems that use celestial or gyro referenced attitude control to maintain pointing of the high-gain antennas toward Earth. The prime mission science payload consisted of 10 instruments (11 …
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
WEBApr 22, 2024 · For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.
Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
WEBSep 25, 2013 · NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone interstellar. Launched in 1977, the probe is vintage space hardware. At more than 36 years old, or roughly a millennium in computer years, it's an...