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The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft


The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude ...

Each computer system on the Voyager spacecraft was dual-redundant— there were two CCS', two FDS', and two AACS'. The CCS typically remained on ...

The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft - Hardware - Retro Computing

An article about the computer systems on the Voyager probes from 2017. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 probes were both cutting-edge ...

NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars). Voyager 1 stopped ...

Contents of the Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia

The Voyager Golden Record contains 116 images and a variety of sounds. The items for the record, which is carried on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ...

40 years and counting: the team behind Voyager's space odyssey

The 815kg craft, Voyager 1, is one of two identical machines that for many years now have been the furthest human-made objects from Earth.

What the Voyager space probes can teach humanity about ...

Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles ...

Where are the 3 computers located on the Voyager space probe?

The Voyagers have a variable clock speed. This is in keeping with the distances the craft are at, and the rate of data that can be transmitted, ...

A patch was sent to Voyager 2 yesterday - Fortran Discourse

Each computer system on the Voyager spacecraft was dual-redundant— there were two CCS', two FDS', and two AACS'. The CCS (Computer Command ...

Spacecraft - NASA Science

The identical Voyager spacecraft are three-axis stabilized systems that use celestial or gyro referenced attitude control to maintain pointing of the ...

The maths that made Voyager possible - BBC News

Nasa's Voyager spacecraft have enthralled everyone with their exploits on the edge of the Solar System, but their launch in 1977 was only ...

Voyager program - Wikipedia

History · The two Voyager space probes were originally conceived as part of the · In 1972, a scaled-down (four planets, two identical spacecraft) mission was ...

How the Voyager Spacecraft Changed the World: An Interview with ...

The two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 are now the farthest man-made objects from Earth, at more than 19.5 billion and 16 billion kilometers away, ...

Voyager 1 returning science data again - SpaceNews

With the spacecraft's computer now working again, the key factor limiting the life of Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, is declining power ...

Voyager 1 spacecraft has sent a (partly) decipherable message

But an engineer with the agency's Deep Space Network, which operates the radio antennas that communicate with both Voyagers and other spacecraft ...

Voyager spacecraft are fighting to survive constant cosmic hostility

“We are dodging bullets out there,” says Alan Cummings, a cosmic-ray physicist at Caltech who has been involved with the Voyager mission since ...

Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science ...

NASA's venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal science operations with all four functioning instruments for the first time in more ...

NASA's interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft isn't doing so well

"We can talk to the spacecraft, and it can hear us, but it's a slow process given the spacecraft's incredible distance from Earth." Related: ...

Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Space, May Have Gone Dark

Voyager 1, the farthest man-made object in space, hasn't sent coherent data to Earth since November. NASA has been trying to diagnose what the Voyager mission' ...

10 Interesting Facts about the Voyager 1 Probe - - Astronomy Trek

The image below shows Voyager 1 being propelled into space by a Titan IIIE lift vehicle. Launched on September 5, 1977, sixteen days after ...

Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space - WIRED

As we're seeing imaging with IMAP, the Voyagers are also going to be making valuable measurements locally,” says David McComas, a Princeton ...