Voyager 1's Interstellar Journey Hindered by Data System Glitch
Engineers at JPL are working to resolve an issue with the Flight Data System (FDS) on Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is causing garbled data and a breakdown in communication with other subsystems. Unlike a previous incident on Voyager 2, a reset of the FDS did not fix the problem, leaving the team to explore other potential causes. The debugging process is complicated by the 45-hour wait time for each transmission to and from the spacecraft.