NASA engineers trying to figure out strange readings from aging interstellar spacecraft

The engineering team is trying to figure out why the data readouts don't match what the vehicle is actually. NASA is trying to figure out the mystery that does not seem to be putting the spaceship in danger.

For the past 50 years, the space station has been exploring the universe. It has a twin that was launched in the same year. Both spaceships flew around the outer Solar System, taking pictures of moons and flying by planets. The heliopause is where the Sun's solar wind ends and the interstellar medium begins. The farthest human-made object in space is 14 billion miles from Earth.

The chance for weird things to happen with the spaceship goes up when it gets from Earth. The AACS is acting up right now. The system that is responsible for maintaining the vehicle's orientation in space as well as pointing the probe's high-gain antenna is called it. As far as the engineers can tell, the AACS is still working. The returning data doesn't accurately describe what the system is doing, according to NASA.

It seems like Voyager 1 is okay. NASA says that it is collecting science data as it is supposed to. The AACS issue has not caused the spacecraft to go into safe mode, a type of operating procedure in which the spacecraft powers down most of its instruments and only focuses on its most essential functions to stay alive.

The team is forging ahead while trying to figure out what's going on in the meantime. We are in a high-radiation environment that has never been flown in before.

A software patch could be used to fix the problem. The team may just learn to deal with it. Adapting is a way of life for the teams. The nuclear batteries that keep the spaceships running are slowly decaying and the power on them is diminishing. The science instruments are still running even though the systems have been turned off.