It's Alive! Voyager 1 Has Sent a Message From Interstellar Space
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- NASA has finally received a message from interstellar space in a way that makes sense. "Hi, It's me!" This is exactly what NASA’s official Voyager account tweeted a few days back to celebrate Voyager 1’s comeback. Considering everything that has happened in the past five months, this is nothing short of a triumph to be celebrated.
At 15 billion miles away, Voyager 1 holds the title of the farthest human-made object in space. The spacecraft has been traveling for nearly half a century now. However, due to a glitch that led to a chain of confusing communication patterns, the last five months have been very stressful in the spacecraft's history.
But what exactly was the glitch that took so long to fix? Why didn’t the traditional strategy of turning it on and off work? Finally, and most importantly, is the issue completely resolved, or is there something else that needs to be addressed?
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💻 Created and Produced by: Rishabh Nakra
✍🏻 Written by: Simran Buttar
🎙️ Narrated by: Jeffrey Smith
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I was 17 years old when the voyagers were launched, and I never thought they would still be sending data back to earth at 64. Excellent that you're keeping the old systems working.
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
@@420glass Yes, very true, a communication relay link.
@@rquest3059 I've been thinking the same thing.
64 = C64 (and computer is also named "old fatty" with Basic command "Poke") 😉
Hey !,,,,,,,,,,,1960,,,,was a very good year (Sinatra),...great time to be living,.......peace,,,,,land o' lakes,wi.....usa.
A tireless explorer, defying the odds with every passing year. A testament to the enduring power of our quest to explore. Voyager shows true human resilience .Glad im here to witness part of its long journey
Of course, it's a victory. What else did you expect them to say? 😊
Same
Well said…and sames
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
@@420glass New horizons launched in 2006 will also end up in interstellar space. It has lots of functionality and hopes to find kuiper belt objects and will start making heliophysic observations in 2025. Think it has enough power to last into 2040 and beyond. It still has fuel to make course changes if it needed to get a closer view of incoming objects.
The data recorder on Voyager 1 (and 2) was designed by my father and his company, Odetics. It is currently turned off to save power, but is still functional.
Cool!!
Wow!!!❤
What a legacy in your family!
So it’s not recording what it’s observing?
You must be very proud
It's just mind-blowing how people can fix a problem so far away, on a machine so old. It's very hard to fathom.❤
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
...Just frustrated Fiat mechanics
It's literally in interstellar space...
Legit almost unfathomable.
Voyager 1 is redefining the phrase "Beyond Expectations".😊❤
What does that mean sir?
@Space30MINUTES that's obvious. Voyager 1 wasn't expected to last this long nor was it expected to travel so far and still be able to send signals back to us. They actually thought it was going to die years ago
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
@@420glass🥸🤷♂️
@@Space30MINUTES it literally means that the spacecraft is unstoppable
Will keep going and going indefinitely.
It is truly amazing that some people are smart enough to perform fixes like this to a system 15 billion miles away and nearly 50 years old!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
thank you Cpt Obvious
ALL the way from the DELTA quadrant !
it is not the distance that is amazing. It is he fact that they deciphered the old manuals, and that the old manuals were written clear enough.
The rest is comparatively simple
I remember the launches of both probes back in '77. Amazing how the engineers used the different planets' gravities to slingshot them faster through the solar system.
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
I was 10 when they launched. I agree that we should have continued to send updated Voyagers at least one per decade.
We’re all good capt Kirk will find it for us)
@@420glass The Voyagers took advantage of a rare once every 176 years planetary alignment in order to achieve their mission. That alignment would have to happen again if we wanted to follow the path of the probes. That will next happen in another 129 years. Just off the top of my head that would put Voyager 1 at about 60 billion miles from earth,making a follow-up mission moot.
It's great how that slingshot action works. The orbital speed of the planet is added to the voyager craft as it passes close to it.
Rewriting someone's 50 year old custom computer code is the closest you'll get to reading a ghost's mind
I’m always looking for something about the voyager 1&2, m wife built the central scientific control module for both craft,she passed in 2020, her legacy is traveling the cosmos.
Sorry about your loss. We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
Absolutely! ❤ thank you for sharing this amazing piece of engineering history & legacy she was a major part of
bro voyager 1 practically showed us everything in the world💀amazing how that technology is working after much time and in such conditions. it’s truly a work of art.
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
they will reply with “budget costs” because for some odd reason i guess the U.S wants to fund pointless things and politics in exchange for possibly finding out the unknown. we had made extreme advancements only over the last 500 years imagine if we all came together as one and helped and if you think about it 500 years is nothing and we’re alive seeing it all unfold we should care about it much more.
I consider the voyager probes to be the peak of scientific engineering. Essentially, all modern spacecraft owe their perfection to the original masterpieces of the voyagers.
The fact it's so simple (not at the time) is why it's so robust
the fact that your comments contradicts itself (right now) is why it makes such perfect sense...
So true!
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
@@wout123100 LOL...whatever you say, Forrest... LOL
Nope, if it had been more complex, current engineers would have had more space to store the code while removing some features that aren't truly necessary today. Complexity doesn't always mean fanciness, but current engineers understand that having too many constraints, even at the storage level, can affect operation. For example, if we were to send a probe for deep space exploration today, we'd need to consider what to include for the next 1,000 years, what the average storage size might be 1,000 years from now, and that would make it sustainable for 100 years. Human development in already advanced fields progresses much faster than anticipated. We could ask why there are no flying cars when they were imagined 100 years ago, but the reality is we might not have developed flying cars, yet we have achieved 1,000 times the computing performance, which no one anticipated because it was an already researched field.
I was a senior in high school when this thing left the earth. I'm 65 now and am absolutely amazed that it still works! Sometimes we just get lucky and have great minds among us who do it right! Also reminds me that I should have studied more in high school
I'm very impressed with this video and the NASA engineers who fixed the problem. I started programming in the late 70's on PDP11-34 and understand what these
original programmers went through to get this code up and running. Programming was an art back then when you had limited memory and computing power.
What computer language did you use?
Crazy that they have been able to sort the problem like that. However, I think more of the praise should rest with the creators of it (Voyager) and its systems. Not only to still be doing the same job fifty years later, given all the radiation and stuff it has had to cope with, but that they designed its systems in such a way as to make this sort of repair possible now. :~)
Very True.
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
Voyager 1 has the attachment with our Earth so deep...it can't stay without talking to us ❤
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
I just passed 50yrs weeks ago. I remember hearing about an update of progress on tv from then I was hooked.
This happy news about Voyager is exciting, fascinating and encouraging all at once. I was 16 when Voyager set out on its mission and I'm so glad to be able to follow its progress this many years later! Thank you! ✨💫
I m awestruck every single time I read about Voyager 1, I know what it is what it is doing, but every single time it's video comes up I get a goosebumps thinking us humans made that thing and where it is right NOW AND STILL WORKING FINE.
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
Yay! VGR's still alive 'n kicking!
I was 18 when it was launched! Never imagined a 1200 baud transmitter could even be heard this far away and that is my MSOC in the USAF at the time it was launched
I work for the federal government and our local I.T. Department can’t fix the simplest of problems here. Can’t imagine how smart these guys were to fix a computer 15 billion miles away.
A cousin was my JPL, chief scientist, and the voice that made the Voyager happen in the required 2 years. We had brilliant scientists and engineers back then who did amazing things with antique technology, no microprocessors.
Voyager 1 and 2 demonstrate just how fucking great the NASA engineers were 50 yeras aog. Outstanding.
Just the best thing I heard today
I’m amazed that we can still communicate with it!
I learned BASIC on a TRS-80, and played my first computer games on the Commodore 64. (Mid 80s - and ugh flowcharts)… So this is fascinating to me., but relatable. On the lighter side, I can’t wait for VGer to come back to us in another 20 years ala Star Trek. 🤣
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
I think we’ll be long gone by the time Voyager comes back to earth.
I still think about that trs 80 once in a while . Cassette tape save entered code … 10 vger goto spock
I started programming pre PC on Unix, first program was a lunar lander on a 1970 Texas Instruments programmable calculator that cost $900 at that time
😂❤I was hoping for a comment like this 100%
V-ger will return to find the maker...
Reminds me of what our team did to a satellite in geosync orbit a few years ago. The satellite stopped performing as required and there were thoughts of moving another bird into the other bird's orbit. The satellite was launched in the 80's and was past it's expected life. We moved some code around on the bird because memory had gotten corrupted. The end result was the main programmer was given a $10,000 bonus and a promotion. Of course, no mention of the constellation is allowed. Maybe in 50 years he will be able to talk about it openly. I wont' because I won't live that long (I am 70).
I remember using the POKE command on my VIC-20.
I was in the USAF when both of the Voyagers were launched. If I remember correctly, II was launched before I. Always loved that one of the Star Trek movies was based off one of the Voyagers.
It astounds me that this little craft has traveled so far without anything hitting it. You guys are amazing. Cheers Ian
Although millions of tons of dust full on earth each year and we are bombarded by meteors every day it’s worth remembering space is completely empty 😂😂😂😂
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
Its named space for a reason :)
@@scottanderson3751Not only that, the meteor, the earth, and everything on it, are also almost completely empty!
Engineering behind both voyagers amazes me .
Incredible .
Can they help the engineers behind washing machines , we need more than 4 years out of them considering they sit in 72 degrees with 0 weather ..
It's like it's intentional🤨
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
Sure, they could. But how much are you willing to pay for such washing machines?
@brianpoi5117
Sarcasm police has a warrant out for you ..🤦
It is intentional. Engineers already made home appliances more reliable. Companies said no to that and built them to break.
Fridges, washing machines etc etc from the 50s 60s 70s would run anywhere from 20 to 40 yrs.
My ex wife has a water heater built in 1953, Last I checked its still running. I told her never get a new one unless it breaks forever.
Another mind-blowing fact is Voyager 1 will still be traveling long after the Earth is gone.
It's crazy that by the time an intelligent life form manages to find this probe, our civilization might have long gone extinct.
It have nuclear battery.. 😮
Wonderful breakdown of the glitch and how it was resolved. I actually understood it!!
so well explained. Great video
Solving problems like this is why I became an engineer! So much satisfaction in figuring out the problem and solution.
The news is thrilling indeed and what's even more exciting is to know the process,how the team managed to reconnect with Voyager 1! Thank you to SOU for this well explained details! 👍💫❤️🌌
Hooray! This is amazing. Congratulations to the team. Hope to hear more soon. Cheers.
The strategy of turning things on and off rarely works. Turning things off and on is much better.
" Hi, it's me. Bringing back friends ". Oh oh.
THank you SOOO much for using and including miles and not just kilometers!!
Thank you for sharing this with us 👍
Voyager(s) are an amazing success story, unexpected I imagine but delightful in all aspects. Now age 85, I was not very good at bits but I did learn and use my meager knowledge with an Atari. Thr originators and programers of the time have a lot to be proud of even though it's doubtful any remain on this side of life. Congratulations to the current programmer for successfully keeping these 2 Bird operational. You too have much to be proud of. Wishing you continued success, and_ Thank You!
it was an amazing feat of engineering to get Voyager 1 working again. the engineers that did it are gods.
No, they're not gods - just smart men.
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
@@420glass that's not possible as the planets need to be in proper alignment to slingshot. the planets align in a way to allow Voyager grand-tour style missions every 175 years. the next launch window is next century.
Nah, just scam artists willing to keep their mouths shut.
@@LeeHounshell - It can be done any time we wish. The calculations simply have to be adjusted.
An entire generation of us has grown up knowing the Cosmos with missions like the Pioneer or the Voyager, it is incredible that one of these spacecraft still continues to feed our old desires and expectations, it is a true prodigy of technology that perhaps is not properly valued...
What is amazing is that this probe is running on Computer technology, from how long ago and is still going strong!
Amazing, so glad they didn't just give up 👍
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
Very good video and excellent interpretation of the problem... Love it
My brother & I were discussing the Voyagers not too long ago and were mulling over the static RAM they must be using. I said from that era, the memory bits were probably large enough to be seen with the naked eye. (And that's why stray radiation hasn't affected them--much.)
Also, it's just a thought, mind you, but I don't think they were running Windows. ;)
Yay this made my day
Voyager 1 slowly closing in on 'one light day' from earth...I remember how exciting it was to see the pictures of the big planets when before as a kid the best we had was images from the 200 inch Mt Palomar...
That's a mile of achievement. It represents a forward step for the future of space travel and returning to the home locations!
It's coming back in 300 years as V-ger. Oh yeah, that's Voyager 6, which never got built. I guess that's a good thing.
One of these was used for target practice by Klingons in Star Trek 5.
I was 13 when these were launched.
space tech: built to last 5 years, lasts 50 years instead
home tech: should last 50 years, breaks in 5 years
Space technology is built by skilled professionals, home tech is built by drilled apes.
"Home Tech" doesn't cost a billion dollars to develop. LOL
@@Baphomet101 Irrelevant. Home Tech uses up precious resources.
Whoa, you got tech at home that lasts 5 years. We must be shopping at different stores. Where you shopping at?
@@murphyking79must be buying their fridges directly from NASA!
Just doing some rough calculations, after all this time Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, or about 1/400 of a light year. The distances involved when it comes to anything in space are just unimaginable.
thank you for this fascinating content. the engineers were really great.
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
Wow now thats content worth listening to🎉 exciting stuff, go voyager 2
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
I remember when I was a kid, my grandpa told me about the gold disc and everything that’s contained on it. I miss him so much.
It’s a tribute to the quality to which that craft was built. Nothing today is likely to last 50 years.
This is cool. The example code seems to be an opening screen for an old BASIC program. It's drawing a border of Qs and allowing you to quit by pressing "!". Line 40 has a mistake. The end of the line should be THEN40 to complete the traditional IF/THEN statement. This being said, It's really cool that people are around who still figure the old stuff.
It amazes me that Voyager I or any craft could survive the Kuiper Belt, let alone other hazards in outer space. 👏
The scientist who build this magnificent piece should be awarded Nobel prize on astronomy as it has done lot of discoveries and still helping the scientist community. Whats your views. Pls share.
Voyager was sent out my year of birth and I've been invested in her voyage since a very young kid.
We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
'The computers aboard the Voyager probes each have 69.63 kilobytes of memory, total. That's about enough to store one average internet jpeg file.'
lol, this is like explaining computing to my father who didn't touch a computer keyboard in his life
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
@@420glassbro, why are you replying to so many comments with the same thing?
Everything discussed here is Mind blowing
The voyager probes are by far the best technological achievement of mankind. Yes I'm aware of how easy it would be to replicate the voyager probes using modern technology and be far more advanced and successful but honestly speaking I can't think of anything more prideful than how amazing these two have been and the resilience they have demonstrated. The day the voyager probes go to sleep is the day humanity loses some of the best devices ever made. God speed voyagers and God bless the data they have provided over the years.
Haven't finished the video yet. But for the mention of the Commodore 64 and how a poke command works, this video gets an automatic like!
I remember using peeks and pokes to program the old Apple 2c to play music.
This is super cool news
super school news
We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
It's good to have voyager 1 & 2 in contact with us
Those were the days (and engineers), my friends!
They need multiple sent years apart that can talk to each other. If the first one can't transmit to earth it could transmit to the next Voyager to relay back. They would need to be sent on the same trajectory.
pure genius with all the scientist involved with this project.
Nice to see the result when America was Top.
what type of battery does it use? I want that battery
Vger must join with the creator.
That's good to hear
Well heard it first from Astrokobi❤
we should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes
It will be a glorious day when humanity makes flyby tour's of the voyager spacecrafts.
Thanks for the video! No need to post how far something is in the old British Imperial system “miles” as no one uses those archaic measurements anymore.
Um, the entire USA does.
So glad to hear.
Voyager 🥲 👏👏👏
Dont let the bastards get you down!
Godspeed ❤️🩹
We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
@@420glass YESSSS 💯👍
the fact that all of our computer systems at some time need to be turned off & on again to clear out the program or chip data. Shows that we are building Tec that has a inherent flaw in it . This just goes to show there is a flaw in our Tec a flaw we need too fix , if our Tec is going to move foward in a manner that will not be held back by this problem...
Computers needed to be restarted because data stored in memory/RAM becomes corrupt. Very expensive servers and workstations have what's called ECC or error correcting memory. These computers rarely if ever need a restart unless they need to apply updates. There's many theories as to what causes bits to flip in memory. Some people think its possible that cosmic radiation hitting Earth does it, and even shielded space probes like Voyager are probably bombarded by cosmic radiation on a continual basis.
I reset the operation time for my robotic vacuum & it took twenty-four hours to respond within a 6-foot range. 😳
amazing repair mission
Besides a nuclear silo cap as the unintentional oops in making boom... Pioneer 10 and 11 are out there...
The voyager spacecrafts represent the finger of humankind reaching out into the depths of infinity . The beacons of a civilization which wanted to understand the cosmos.
We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
@@420glass I agree 💯%
Very cool to hear!! Great job.. and hes travelling at 40,000 mph?
We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
Look, it’s simple.
The more user friendly something is, the harder it is to fix.
Consumer example of this is DOS vs Windows. Mac doesn’t have this issues because even when Mac used Finder, it was just as user friendly as macOS, if not more.
Even cars follow this example. Shade tree mechanics are a thing of the past. There is so much electronic control system in new cars that you need computerized diagnostics systems to fix some issues.
This is truly commendable and what can we do but wait?
We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
@@420glass Maybe I love simplicity and ease of understanding. So we just do whatever is easy to understand and discover. Is it right?
The folks at NASA were in a real tennetenba, but when they called Moss and Roy they advised them to turn it off and turn it back on.
Ooo, 40 thousand years, don't let me sleep through that!
15b miles, which has taken the Voyager almost 50 years to travel, takes light about 22 hours. So it's travelled, on average 0.0000022831 the speed of light. *sigh*
We'll have to wait until the machine planet finds it and fixes it. It'll come back bigger and better.
We love you voyager 1 and 2
Voyager in the spotlight let’s hope it doesn’t stop being rectified.
The message we received was garbled but was written as:
“We a.. tryi.. to re... you ab..t y..r ca.s war..nty”
Yes, and after days of decoding the actual message said - Are we there yet.? 😄
Interesting, I thought Voyager 2 was traveling faster than 1 That would mean it's further away. I'm sure I saw that, but I guess not.
Off to check the facts. :) It's great these probes are still working in any way after so many years.
Its crazy that that the deep space network using radio signals for communication decades ago is still used today in the JWST. Even with all the advancement in technology we have achieved.
Huh!! A message from interstellar, what the heck. I can’t even get WiFi sitting next to my WiFi apparatus, and no service in the subway tunnel. 🤷🏻♀️
What I’m I missing here. Yikes!!! 😮
We should have sent out new voyagers over the years that way each new one would have been better and they could help keep links open to the earlier probes.
On and off needs to be followed with unplug and blow on it. 😂
yup
Did they send a someone up to blow on it ? 😂
Excellent.