Outer space is undoubtedly the most unknown thing that exists for human beings, and despite the fact that we have been investigating it for more than 50 years, the advances are minimal if we compare it with other areas of research. It is not that the work of all the people who have dedicated themselves to this is little, but the truth is that we do not even know everything about the Moon, and it is the closest thing there is to planet Earth.
Obviously this is due to all the complications there are for research, and the enormous amount of money involved in going into space and re-entering our orbit. But even so, institutions and governments continue to invest in all these projects to know what lies beyond.
One of the longest-lived is that of lVoyager 1 spacecraft, which has been moving away from Earth for 47 years. This robotic space probe was launched into space in 1977. the object made by humans that is furthest from our planet because it is about 24.7 billion kilometers.
However, For a week now neither NASA nor the mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have given any progress on the situation of this ship.e, something that sounds very suspicious. In fact, Bernard Netherclift, a Voyager enthusiast, claims that since the Deep Space Network (DSN) communications with the probes, none of NASA’s antennas located in Robledo de Chavela (Madrid), Tidbinbilla (Canberra) and Goldstone (California)They have received news from Voyager 1.
In recent years, this ship has suffered several problemss, a result of the time spent in space and the deterioration of materials, but fortunately, the incredible efforts of NASA workers have been able to fix them despite being billions of kilometers away. For example, they managed to restart some engines that had been inactive for decades in order to guide the ship again along the mission path.
However, upon losing all communication with her, They don’t know what could have happened, and in the event that the thrusters have failed, it is almost impossible to recover it again.or, since the commandos would not reach the ship. Even so, since NASA does not lose hope and is trying all kinds of solutions.s to reestablish contact with Voyager 1.
To do this, they have reallocated part of Voyager 2’s tracking time to the search for Voyager 1 at the Canberra station, they are deprioritizing other communications with other ships and missions and they have even tried the most powerful antenna they have to try to send some type of transmission.
The latter was tried this week, and we are still waiting to see if it works onor, in the event that the tests are negative, It will mean the end of possibly the most mythical space missionmainly due to its longevity, although its second generation, Voyager 2, is still active and has the energy capacity to continue collecting data from space until 2030.
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