NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.
The problem is the power supply, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTGs). They can produce power for years, but the issue is that the power output declines. Originally it was designed to provide 470 watts, but now it’s down to 250 watt…
at some point we’ll be lucky to receive any signal at all as the systems degrade. maybe its the beginning of the end
The problem is the power supply, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTGs). They can produce power for years, but the issue is that the power output declines. Originally it was designed to provide 470 watts, but now it’s down to 250 watt…