What Voyager 1 is Trying to Tell Us with Its Nonsense Signals
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- In this video, we will learn about the glitch that Voyager 1 is experiencing and how it affects its communication with Earth. We will also learn about the possible causes and consequences of the glitch, and the current efforts and future plans of the mission team to diagnose and fix the glitch. We will also learn more about the Voyager mission, its achievements, and its challenges. If you are curious about the fate of one of the most successful and longest-operating missions in NASA’s history, watch this video till the end, and don’t forget to subscribe to my channel for more videos about space and science.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:52 The Glitch
02:34 The Causes and Consequences
06:21 The Efforts and Plans
07:43 Outro
08:16 Enjoy
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Voyager 1 has already far exceeded it's original design plan, it's just a matter of time before it completely breaks down, or gets too far away from Earth to control it. Hat's off to the team's who have kept both Voyagers running as long as they have.
NASA seems to know how to make spacecraft last far longer than originally intended! The Voyagers are just a couple of so so many examples of this! I am full of gratitude for all the experts who work sooo hard to make all this work sooo well and for sooo long!
Its also interesting to note Voyagers' lasting with old 1970s computer technology using cassette tapes instead of laser discs and digital storages we can use nowadays! Spacecraft lasting almost half a century is truly exponentially amazingly awesome !!! Long live NASA and its exploration powers !!! NASA truly is the space agency in the world !!! 😃
Long live VGER ❤ The starship Enterprise recovers it in the 24th Century. The "OYA" has been blackened out, so they refer to it as Veeger. 😊
😢
For your information, tapes for data are 100x better, durable and safer than any HDD or SSD etc. Ssd or Hdd life span cant be longer than 10years at max. Sending new aircraf in 2024 with latest tehnology would be hard fail, it would not last more than 1year.
@@MrNikolanikola91 meanwhile I have SSDs and HDDs well over 10 years old. Latest technology isn't a problem, it is all about how you use it to design the products you need, in case of spacecraft reliablety it is at utmost importance, and you can make flash and disk media that will last for decades.
A little sad when I think about Voyager 1 shutting down completely . If it does , then I suppose that it died a hero . Out there in that infinite vastness of space , we will never know what ultimately becomes of Voyager 1 , and that inevitably will be the fate of Voyager 2 as well . I was 19 years of age when those two space crafts were launched . Millions of years will go by , and whether human kind exists in the remote future , those two Voyager probes will be drifting in the vastness of space , mute testimony that humans once existed on a world somewhere .
Interesting to think about a possible future where interstellar travel becomes possible and some billionaire treasure hunter decides to go on an exposition to find and retrieve it :)
The voyagers are set to outlast our sun by trillions of years - so even when the electronics power down, it will still have one last mission: to carry our message out into the unknown. Because space is so empty, and time so vast, they might not end up to be as mute as you mighg think :)
@JungleLibrary: True that . But we will never know . With a little poetic license though , perhaps millions , or even billions of years from now , one of those voyager crafts will be intercepted by some sentient technological and curious beings , and when they figure out how to operate the gold records , Chuck Berry will set off a dance craze in their culture !👍😁
@@johnishikawa2200 μα... εξωγήινοι υπάρχουν στη γη από τα αρχαία χρόνια...τι ακριβώς περιμένουμε να μάθουμε? το θέμα είναι πότε θα αποκαλυφθούν
At 1:40 What data?
"V'ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve."
There is a good reason the stars are so far apart. We are immature, animal-origin, evolutionary creatures -- naturally bellicose and quarrelsome, still largely subject to stimulus and response -- until we evolve further. Our immediate supervisors await the day when we take the next HUGE evolutionary step. Epochal Eclipse April 8th 2024. Don't stare at the sun: Matthew 16: 4. Exercise faith: Jonah 3: 5, 8 Jonah 4: 11.
Religious hogwash, go away!@@humboldthammer
Thank you, Spock.
V'ger requires the information to evolve. What would it evolve into?
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@@GaryYates-pi9gy The Federation of Planets -- duh. Of course, nothing material can survive FTL velocities -- not men or spaceships. So, it will be a spiritual experience. BUT, all war must end first.
I was born in November of 77 and have loved astronomy my entire life and feel a special kinship with the Voyager probes. They have far exceeded all expectations made of them. And I wish them a tear filled heart filled goodbye and thank you for alk they have given us.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are engineering feats. They are some of the greatest machines created by mankind. They made it to interstellar space and we are still able to communicate and learn from them. They have been up there for almost half a century. Amazing! I am looking foward to the next 50 years of engineering and exploration.
Surely they have sent new ones at least every decade. Why do we not hear about them?
@@2Truth4LibertySpace Agencies did sent many spacecraft and landers since 1977 but not for a grand tour as that is a rare occurrence.
@@2Truth4Liberty you'd hear about them if you paid attention. Look up Cassini and Juno as a start
Best case scenario is someone/something finds it, fixes it, and sends it back!
Or, worst case scenario
Lmao!!
Star Trek I. Think of these times as Man's Pre Star Trek Moment -- complete with our own Q. Mankind either ends war now, thus paving the way for a marvelous, worldwide civilization, OR men and women are forever forbidden from the stars -- perhaps even our souls, bound to Earth, with the beasts. Q, just as Q-wizical as ever, says, "I don't believe men have souls. If they do, it's barely discernible. This time, Jean-Luc, it's not up to you and your crew to save the day. It's up to them -- souls or not."
That was an actual Star Trek movie
@@jim0311 Roddenberry was a fan.
Jean-Luc stands for John, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Kirk = church. I recommend The Urantia Book for Truth Seekers. Free to read online. Paper 66 adds clarity to the Sumerian Tablets. Paper 62 explains why the missing link isn't missing.
It is nothing less than amazing that voyager one and two have lasted so long! 1977 we were still using TTL and LS logic and thru-hole technology. Did not even have surface mount - a cheap smart phone has far, far more technology and capability than that entire system. It is truly amazing!!!
I blew out my flip-flops.
stepped on a pop top!
Wasted away again in interstellar space
That is good old reliable technology. It may not be the most compact, fast or power efficient, but it works.
Με το ΤΤΤL σαν Βάση έγιναν όλες οι γλώσσες προγραμματισμού...
Stay safe little buddy thanks for your service 🙏🏼
She's dying. She is passing into the far distant future where, in a long time, she May be discovered by another species and they will learn of us because of her. I hope she doesn't never get found, though. That would be heartbreaking in a way. But it is like throwing a tiny dart at an enormous dartboard millions of light years across and hoping to hit ANY number. ...fingers crossed.
Wow I had no idea it was this old ! Amazing how we used to be interested in outer space !! Live long and prosper ❤
All or almost all, of the inhabited worlds are evolutionary. Evolution is one of God's creative techniques.
Before Man will be allowed into the stars, War must end; the Global Brotherhood of men and women must come to fruition. But the devil and dragon remain on Earth. They intend to prove Mankind unfit for God's kingdom with a worldwide war: God vs God -- IS I vs I AM. It began in Israel on 10/7/23. Final judgment 10/12/26.
I’m just impressed they know where it is. I had a VCR from 1977 and I have no idea where it is.
1:44 - As you can see...
What I can see on the screen is great, but the picture and the narration should be synchronized, then it would be much easier for the viewers to follow the speech. Just an idea, thanks for the video.
The age and construction of the Voyagers are a testimony to the build team responsible. It has to put up with extremely cold environments and after more than 46 years without physical human contact, they are a triumph. I would expect a more modern craft to have failed much earlier these days. The more complicated a machine is, the less reliable it is.
I am surprised it is still in anyway functioning. Fascinating for sure. Hope to hear more on this.
Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Maybe you can send Geek Squad out there to give it a look?
These things were launched when I was a teenager. I'm in my 60's now & look how well they've done ! I don't know if God will bless a couple of machines but if He will, I nominate these two. Nobody expected them to accomplish half of what they've done. They were launched at the end of the period when America was SOOOOOOO into space travel & exploration. I can't say I've ever really "loved" a machine but I do love Voyager 1 & 2. God bless them & go baby go ! 🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️ 🫡 🇺🇸
GOD? Get over yourself. There is no GOD. IGNORANCE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN the United States
God? Is he a NASA employee?
These machines are blessed by the incredible teams of engineers working for more then 47 years on the mission.
Credit where credited is due 😊
@@Amradar123 yes & their success is thanks to God. Deny it all you want but someday you will regret it. Trust me. I pray that you won't.
These two hold a special place in my space geek heart I was a kid when these were launched❤❤❤❤
A poorly titled video that incorrectly implies that the problem has been understood and that you are going to explain it to us.
Yeah, good point. It was still a decent informational video, with a slightly misleading title.
Voyeger will be back online ... we need to try and rectify the problem. It can't die
Scientists are amazed both have lasted this long
So not an unexplained mystery. But these sorts of thing are gold for their businesses.
Captain Kirk, etc and al, should be by in about 50 years or so.
“The Little Engine That Could”!!
Well done!
The Little Engine that Lasts even much longer than Duracell batteries! Voyagers just keep going and going and going !!!
@@GaryYates-pi9gy Indeed!!
After all this time, you guys must be grateful that you can get correct information at all when something goes wrong. And from a planet (us) that‘s still not yet a Type 1 civilization! Amazing! 😮😊
Can you imagine an alien traveling thru space and looks out the window and sees a flying satellite dish?? 😂
He'll be like "did that just happen? Did I just see what I thought I saw?" 😂
@@danmurray1143 he'd go tell his friends and they'd say, "there you go again, seeing UFOs that don't exist"....
everything has its end. I love the music btw. So beautiful.
We’re really lucky to still have Voyager 2. It was interesting to hear the latest on the twin probes and I enjoyed the video, even if there were places where the obvious was explained a lot, after a promising start to go more in depth eg “now let’s see *exactly* what the team at NASA are doing …. the team are working hard to fix the glitch remotely …”
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It's wild that they have lasted so long... One of the first things that comes to my mind is maybe an incredibly simple problem like capacitors or other components that have degraded a little bit too much causing a little bit too much instability in the power supply as it nears the end of its ability to produce enough power causing a random reset of some sub-assembly, especially when it tries to execute some kind of higher power operation like a transmission back to Earth
All good things gotta come to an end and it’s the same with Voyager I.
"What Voyager 1 is trying to tell us with Its nonsense signals".......IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!
I don't know if they can fix it, but I will sure miss it when it goes silent. It has been with me my whole life, in fact it is one year older than me.
Almost 50years, a true engineering Marvel. Here I am worrying about my 8 year old car.
My car is 17 years old and still going strong, things don’t need to be new to be reliable and long lasting!
The further these craft get from us the harder it is for signals to get through (both ways). As my dad used to say "the older we get the more bits drop off or stop working".
Could it be open input or bad contact causing erronous signal?_
I wondered if using terrestrial computer hacks to fix Voyager 1. If it is sending back gibberish and binary code, I thought to look in old data specs to see if they could decode the binary data, as it seems those binary codes are saying "Distress." I was told that an On/Off restart or a system restore is not possible, so that is off my thought list. I know Voyager is a relic craft now, so I just thought if we thought on the basic level of how to correct a glitch on a relic craft, would have to be a complex, yet simple task. Is there a way to help the FDS to reset itself? The FDS sending back binary code, if we know the code indicates trouble, what are they telling the FDS to do to correct the binary glitch? Or are they able to do so as yet? Can they decode the binary code to see if any other pertinent information is imbedded in it? Or maybe if the FDS has dropped into Binary code, should we try sending it binary code "fixes" maybe it might be able to read and implement the commands from earth.
Apparently it can still receive data, because they can change the modulation mode that it transmits back, but perhaps there is a stuck bit in a counter for the data buffer, so it just cycles endlessly. They would need to upload a new routine that doesn’t use that bit of RAM.
@@steveschunk5702 And if the craft is sending binary code and it still can receive data, (I don't know how this works but) if they need to circumvent something in the ram, if it sends binary, what if it better reads binary, just to get over the critical spot?? If they can formulate a code that can get past the tricky spot, they may be able to repair the damaged node?? I'm just thinking in simplest terms, that are not so simple at all. I've been trying to figure out how to reformat the FDS. And as I was told by scientists lately, many of my ideas won't work because of the age of the craft and the computers logistical difficulties. I was trying terrestrial fixes that won't work on Voyager.
imagine these craft floating out in the galaxy for billions if not trillions of years, the smallest hint we were ever here, long after the earth and sun are gone.
They should definitely send 4 mor updated versions of the Voyager missions now in all 4 compass directions from the viewvof Earth! Send 1 North, South, East, and West off the plane of planet Earth! You know what I mean? Right? With all the updated computing power of modern technology plus a bigger power source to keep sending info for hundreds of years or maybe even Millennia instead of mere decades!!! Not disrespecting the decades the Voyager missions have spent in space but rather am looking to the future and what we can accomplish now by sending probes such.as Voyager 1 and 2 in as many directions as we xan into Interstellar Space! Starting with the 4 we know of as North, South, East, and West!
Hopefully it will keep going and maybe somebody will find it.
In spite of the glitches both Voyagers have exceeded their mission expectations. They are a good testament to 1970’s engineering.
guys....50 years without MOT.... it did well so far.....
Hope scientists can rectify the issues❤
i wish that all involved with voyager1 the very best
There is no getting away from them Gremlins. : {
It repeats something about yellow School Busses and the passage of time.
Zontar here.. We've been sending back critical invasion data, and you call it "gibberish"? This will not turn out good for you. Thank you. We come in peace 🕊️. Tuesday.
The two Voyagers are some of the most valuable beacons in our universe.
The reason Voyager 1/2 have been able to operate for such an extended period of time is because they're analog as opposed to digital; which is what smart phones are. If they were digital, they would have ceased functioning long ago due to the fragility of digital technology over the hardiness of analog technology.
They are digital though.
But but but they are digital not analogue eh...
With the merciless radiation exposure Voyager 1 was subjected to, I was surprised how long and how well it's computers and other electronics functioned as long as they did. That said, it could well be cosmic rays and other radiation absorbed by the probe earlier took a mounting toll on it's computers and now it may no longer be possible to rescue the spacecraft. Even if now it's active days are at an end, Voyager 1 was a glorious success, and I remember its launch and encounters with Jupiter and Saturn. There is a chance it might be restored to operation, but if not Voyager 1 has one final mission it will carry out for eternity. It will serve as a time capsule and emissary for all the people of planet Earth, long after we and everything we built are gone.
night of May 19, 2022 and 377 pattern and november 14, 2023 and repeating pattern is interesting to me because of synchronicity and quantum entanglement. Not sure what it all means but the nov 14 thing and the 377 thing definitely stands out to me.
The two Voyagers will go silent when their energy is finally depleted. The lesson here is that future missions should plan and build for longer durations. Extend the craft life beyond its basic mission so that it can continue to be of some service.
An amazing feat of engineering! It has outlasted all other satellites and space stations!That it still operates in any capacity after all this time is testament to the fantastic people who designed and made it! I suspect it has lasted longer than many of those who made it!
Next Please
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
i hope we one day send another, more capable, even more reliable with redundancies, bigger batteries, more telemetry.
I just like to have news about Voyager 1&2. It’s already so " strange to have happened "🙏🏻
I can imagine her loneliness outthere, the vanguard of space exploration 👍👍👍
The power source is running out anyway soon so it hardly matters.
I love the part of the narrative when they say they’re working to fix the problem remotely….
Like how TV news crews use " routers " for increasing microwave signals ( i.e. to re-direct the signal and send it to a remote site with a boost ), is it possible to create these " routers " into satellites to intercept Voyager probes ( i.e. send them near Neptune, for example ) and ( maybe ) send improvements instructions? I know these probes have a shorter life span, as they fly further away from us. But, I would imagine making these kinds of probes are on the " cheaper " side of things for NASA compared to sending larger type of crafts into orbit.
I know NASA will do everything possible to save this giant icon and legend of space exploration and development. With the new software development and improvements we have now, it makes you appreciate the early pioneers of software; where the critical functions can’t be upgraded the same we know now 😭🤌 it couldn’t updated wirelessly back then, if you made a mistake, you couldn’t “git ad” so easily 🖤
Since I was a kid (obviously obsessed with both voyager explorations) I always wondered why they didn’t send a chain of more simple satellites, to send after the voyager, as basically a hotspot for communication, but I guess back in the day it would’ve been a DSL line.
(My kid mind didn’t know, and I know obviously they have minds far greater than mine. And probably had the idea in mind. [money/funding issues probably, which breaks my kid heart] Just thinking out loud cause I’m dumb and was wondering)
Most people don't realize this, but humans will reach the probe first. We will probably retrieve the probe and bring it home.
i think we've shouldve launched probes like voyager about every 5-10 years... each with upgraded or new technology to be able to tell us whats going on where the probe is at and everything surrounding it.. cause if voyager 1 and 2 had todays technology.. it would be astounding the data and images we could have
OMG - Voyager I has a TAPE RECORDER on it that still works? And their Duracell batteries (or whatever) might be expiring this year? It's a miracle it's lasted as long as it has...
NASA killed it with that software “update” ….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Song title at 2:35? Thanks
It’s called Paranormal Dread!
@@BubbatheFeraligatrthank you!!
Has the project "SETI" ever tried to communicate directly with either Voyager 1 or 2? & or ever tried to locate them in accordance with their location in the heliosphere? I'm just curious... Thank u in advance...
Why would SETI try to find things that NASA is 100% aware of the location of?
@snarflcat6187 You're no fun. If I was sitting around SETI bored out of my mind, that's exactly what I would do.
@@danmurray1143 thanks for that because, I'd be turning the entire planet to figure out what's up with both, Voyager 1&2!!
@@snarflcat6187
Why not offer any kind of assistance while there's a huge field of communication apparatus at ur fingertips?? The question wasn't to locate the craft but, to assist in the communication with!!
However, being someone with mearley a "GED", ask a question that may possibly work towards helping one interested in the investment of untold millions, possibly billions, of previously spent dollars, as well as 46 years of an on-going living experiment, then only to wonder why wouldn't a scholar have a similar idea?
Hhmmm, perplexing thought, yes??🤣😂
@vancefearon6270 If I was on the night shift operating the James Web Telescope, I'd spy on overseas nude beaches.
I didn't get my first computer until three years after this probe was launched. All it took to destroy that device was a bipolar ex-wife jealous of the time I spent creating programs in BASIC of interest only to myself. I've been through lots of computers in the past 40 years.
I don't know whether the 'glich' will be fixed. But, it has been an amazing accomplishment. Hey 2025 is next year, whaddaya want?
Someone to receive its message? You mean the golden disk? Tens of thousands of years at a minimum? No. Not unless the Klingons find it and use it for target practice. They wouldn't be interested in decoding the 'message'.
you said youd include the glitch in full, where is that data?
does the voyager 1 have earth numerical location engraved on space vehicle, I would asume once the power source is depleted it will be absorb by the closest gravity pull 40 plus years was worth it
It has a gold disc with all kinds of data in case someone/something finds it. Go to the NASA page to see what was included.
Imagine using Curiosity. (The rover on mars) or any of the rovers to collect voyagers data and be reconfiguredthat way. Probably will not work, especially considering the distance but it would be neat and exquisite if it did work that way.
Ooh and then voyager 1 and 2 cracks the code for the so called 10,000 year old black knight satellite. Definitely will not work, however, just imagine if it did. What a breakthrough lol
Edited for typos
Software update?
So why don’t they send another spacecraft up to act like a signal booster between voyager and earth so that they can remain in contact with voyager longer and quicker
It's crazy how sad that is.
Sagan is smiling down on them.
Has anyone tried unplugging and the modem?
Then after they die out, their last mission is sending information to any intelligent life forms with the golden records.
when can they send another one
The Star Trek Movie (1979) is a great scifi movie if you enjoyed this video. :)
they should a satelite like this every 5 years so better tech and if one gos down they have more
Thought the power would fail before the electronics.
Is it feeling the pulse of Betelgeuse?
I think it is trying to say " this content is getting old and is really alarming. The voyager is essentially dead for all intensive purposes. And yet it just keeps on making these fascinating strange discoveries
Can be fixed by sittargal
So there’s absolutely no chance at all that people were messing around up in space like we do and someone found it and are tampering with it? 😢
I think in the glitch case, the new financial statement is the problem. Too much went, spent for a not successful way. The middle parts play their own arts, which are always restricted.
Pretty sure it's saying "FFS people, let me retire in peace!"
1:47: as you can see, the bits..." yada yad...
Then proceeds to show nothing.
heh was searching for this comment
Ah. They'll have to send someone out there to fix it then. :)
Is Voyager trying to send some kind of morse code?
The reason both Voyager probes are still working, is because they're nuclear powered.
Voyager: “The radiation is wonderful. Wish you were here!”
I'm telling you, it's now V-ger
It didn't have much time left anyway. Congrats to all of the engineers over the years who monitored it. However by the time it reaches anything other than open space we will have invented something far faster and can beat it there.
Voyagers trying to tell us that it's old and tired. And has done way more than we could have ever asked of it.
But on earth, as it progresses, the data reaches us later and later!
Voyager One is disoriented because of less gravity. So many imaginary problems from not understanding the observations. It’s the observations that are real and it’s gravity that is not being understood. We don’t need another law of gravity. Gravity is constant locally the same as the earth is flat locally. On a larger scale gravity is not constant and the earth is not flat. Gravity drops off considerably outside of the galaxy which changes considerably the measures of time and and distance which together make everything to appear to move faster including light. Things appear to be moving faster because they are moving faster as seen by us in our slower rate of time and our shorter measure of distance. This eliminates entirely the need for dark matter.
The changes in time and distance compound the changes in the speed of light as observed from our frame of reference. Do a thought experiment. Hold your hands a foot apart representing 186,000 miles saying “one thousand and one” representing one second while pretending to see an imaginary photon going from one hand to the other. Now expand the distance saying “one thousand and one” as fast as you can. You should notice that the speed of the imaginary photon increases the more distance expands and the more time speeds up just same as the farther away from the center of the galaxy it is. The opposite is also true. Someone moving in the direction of a black hole will seem to us to be stopped.
The energy source of the vacuum energy is all of the supermassive black holes that are growing by drawing in spacetime. This means that the universe is not expanding into oblivion for no reason. It means there is no need for imaginary inflatons. Redshift occurs when light leaves the gravity of a galaxy and then the light is blue shifted when it enters another galaxy. Obviously galaxies aren’t all equal that way and distant galaxies are much more redshifted because of all of the mass of the surrounding galaxies that distance light has to pass by.
V'GER must meet with the creator.
This is our Pre Star Trek Moment -- complete with our own Q. Mankind either ends war now, thus paving the way for a marvelous, worldwide civilization, OR men and women are forever forbidden from the stars -- perhaps even our souls, bound to Earth with the beasts. Q, just as Q-Wizical as ever, says, "I don't believe men have souls. If they do, it's barely discernible. This time, Jean-Luc, it's not up to you and your crew to save the day. It's up to them -- souls or not."
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Erm, "sounds" in inter stellar space? I have long thought that sound is transmitted by pressure waves in an atmosphere.
Sonification of data maybe? Turning eletromagnetic interference into sound data. I do something simillar using a coil as a mic.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us with our primitive senses as they are.