The The unit converts the data to binary code – consisting of zeros and ones, the simplest form of computer ... were stuck," NASA said. Engineers restarted the Flight Data System in December ...

Engineers have determined why NASA's Voyager ... 1's Flight Data System (FDS), one of three computers on the spacecraft. The FDS operates alongside a command-and-control central computer and ...

NASA’s iconic space probe is having trouble communicating with its home planet due to a computer glitch ... the outer regions of the solar system, but it is recently unable to send back any ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced ... The mission team first noticed the issue November 14, when the flight data system’s telecommunications unit began sending back a repeating ...

On December 12, NASA announced an issue within Voyager 1’s flight data system (FDS), one of the spacecraft ... to use its telemetry modulation unit (TMU) subsystem. Without this line of ...

However, a computer problem ... power will force NASA to start turning off instruments on each spacecraft. Most of NASA's modern missions exploring the Solar System have simulators on the ground ...

On Dec. 12, 2023, NASA ... System, or FDS. (The backup FDS stopped working in 1981.) "The FDS is not communicating properly with one of the probe's subsystems, called the telemetry modulation unit ...

This computer, NASA says, is responsible for packaging science and engineering data before it's sent to Earth by the spacecraft's telemetry modulation unit. Related: NASA's Voyager 1 glitch has ...

For the past six months a team of engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been trying to fix a glitchy computer ... and articulation control system, which makes sure the spacecraft ...

NASA has set a new launch date for its ... redundant chassis that provides power to a subset of computer cards controlling various system functions, including the card responsible for the stable ...