Voyager 1 is a certified space soarer, coming up on half a century of flight-time and still going strong. But it’s beaming back an abnormal message to NASA, and they’re scrambling to understand why.
The signal from the computer that keeps Voyager 1’s antenna pointed towards Earth is sending back erroneous number sequences, such as rows of zeros. Mission team members like project manager Suzanne Dodd — who began working on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft 38 years ago as her first job out of college in 1984 — are trying to figure out what is happening on this faraway probe.
