It's Alive! Voyager 1 Sends NASA A Message From Deep Space! Where Is It Now?
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- It's Alive! Voyager 1 Sends NASA A Message From Deep Space! Where Is It Now?
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Everyone’s favorite space probes, the Voyagers, are back in the headlines again, and recently it looked like we almost lost communication with Voyager 1 for good.
Back on December 12, 2023, NASA reported that Voyager 1’s flight data system, which consists of three onboard computers, started sending binary gibberish data back to Earth; a repeating pattern of ones and zeros that made no sense to the engineers.
When the glitch first occurred, engineers could still send signals to the distant probe and could tell it was still operating, but something was clearly wrong.
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Voyager 1: I have achieved sentience
NASA: What nonsense is this? Fix the glitch immediately!
My first thought. Little dude was trying to express wonders of the cosmos
given the limited space and communication methods it makes sense to tell the story in binary...
we wont know until they release the raw binary data.
it has everything it needs to learn, but more than half of its resources would be used if it wanted to write compile and run its own software... not impossible just we wouldnt have any way to explain how. a ghost in the machine.
over time weird things happen with electronic circuits. and many things can explain it away. something like voyager needs to maintain its mission and operations... it wouldnt be allowed to be sentient.
the other one will likely be crashed to earth. the best thing to do is have a copy... and let one exist with the glitch. and have another tail along to observe it and monitor more things with updated ideas. 🤓🙏
i hope we get photos some how.
Star Trek The Motion Picture - Looked how that ended! 🧐
Basically all they had to do was clear cookies and cache 😂
Hey, learn how to clear cookies and cache using a Binary Drive System and don't forget to go by a Museum to get the parts, if you can find one,, 001,000,100, can be anything, have a little heart, and be awe struck, it older then you are, and mileage is off your scale, have a good day
The clearly pressed the wrong button :)
😂
Meanwhile my Phone dies after 2 years....
Because they are made that way, so you can buy a new one... :(
Wow. Wish my phones lasted 2 years.
To be fair, modern smartphones are way more complicated and capable than this probe.
@@demonsangellsto be fair, it's intentional
i keep buying used old products and restoring them for a reason. Enshittification is real.
"10001000100110001" Translated: "Humans stay in your lane."
Mysterious alien civ.
Cap, our lane is dominating , ants ain’t got no space program and we can wipe out any tech we build 😂
@@NotWithMyMoney then explain how ants are on every earth like planet in the universe
😂🤣😂 - "our vehicles have steering wheels"
@@DrHuxley- Huh? What earth like planets?
No, we’re humans with faith and hope who always find a solution to a problem. Don’t ever loose faith and hope bc we’re all human / Life
Hang in there little ones. We owe you so much and we'll listen to your stories for as long as you live.
Imagine the voyager 1 stopped sending signals, and then after a few thousand years, it suddenly resumes, confusing modern scientist because the language(code) it sends is already ancient and nobody knows it except for one archeologist who studies ancient computers.
the last message was a few hundred years ago
it says:
_"we are coming"_
at which point the supposed aliens are . . . . . . . . . from earth!!!
It was them the whole time
Please I'm the aliens from Nigeria's
Voyagers may be the finest most dependable objects humanity has ever made!
Im so glad to see it will live a little longer, i was 3 months old when they launched, they've been with me for its entirety.
Built back in the day when stuff was designed to last longer than 17 seconds past the three year warranty 😂
@@johnbuyers8095 I cannot disagree. As a plumber I can tell you today's water heater last 10-15 years. I refurbished my water heater the other day, looked up the serial number, manufactured in 1989, still working fine!
Long after the planet is gone it will be flying though space
15.5 BILLION miles away.
Not just around the corner for us.
But a ‘gnat’s hair’ distance in cosmic terms.
It would take a full day to catch up to the voyager if you were traveling at the speed of light.
Please help me I'm the one has been looking for helping
V’ger is now self aware
So crazy to think about where that little probe could be and the things it might see. Truly an amazing piece of technology.
Absolutely. Wouldn't be cool if there were a continous video feed.
It's crazy that there's still supposedly fully grown functioning adults that think space is real
@@David-cv1se lol...right dude. The DMT elves give you this information?
@truthorpropaganda9001 I have no idea who that is just as you can't physically prove your fantasy land of space exists
@@David-cv1se Are you a flat earther?
I am inordinately fond of these two little guys as they migrate their way thru deep dark space... and its deeply impressive how the NASA engineers kept at it till they found a fix to reset #1 😊
Your basic Indomitable Human Spirit. We'll keep trying everything that might work till there's nothing left to try. Then we'll try things that might not work.
Luckily for earthling, there are no immigration laws in space that would inhibit the ability to travel on.
I think it's time to send out another Voyager
Imagine with today's technology how much faster, further, longer, and stronger the craft and signals could be.
Moon base, Moon Space station, Mid station to Mars. Mars station. Mars base. Start looking at Jupiter's moons.
That's what I want to see.
Extraterrestrials already know us. We don't need to send out another one.
Sorry to inform you, but today's "voyagers"' don't have a chance of being operational for that long. On the other hand, they are more effective during their lifetime.
Voyager 3 going farther than 1, let's see it.
@@mikkel715 Why wouldnt they be operational for that long?
I don't think we will live long enough to learn about space.
It’s for future generations to learn….. not us.. not in a looong time.. sadly 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
So pessimistic...
We are alive NOW and learning as we grow...
Lighten up lol...
✌🌎😉
Speak for yourself I'm gonna live forever
@@sherifitzgerald6886 not being pessimistic mate.. just right now the world is in tear oil and who knows.. we might end up back to the Stone Age the way things are going.. only time will tell I guess 😁😁😁
I think we will live long enough to where a lot of people get to go to mars and live there... at least some of us.
The Keith Richards of spaceships.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
As long as Voyager, doesn't find coconut trees out there, they'd be fine 😊
Unbelievable! Voyager 1 is still operating and sending signals to Earth after more than 4 decades. 😲 A testament to the persistence of technology and human desire to explore. I have also researched this issue a lot.
And a time when people worked together before corporations made stock prices and profits more important than people and quality. NASA and companies were run by engineers not bean counters. NASA still does an incredible job.
I was born 11 years AFTER these probes launched, but it's no less fascinating. Man... I bet aliens already kinda know that there's a planet full of violent, psychotic apes in the Sol system, and stay away as a result but it'd be cool someday if they showed up with a probe or 2 (or 10) in tow like "hey quit leaving your shit laying around"
Couldn’t build an appliance that would last that long today
What was the message? "FWD: Stop sending us nude pics! Signed, the aliens".
Voyager 1 and 2 are my favorite space probes. Launched about 4 years before I was born. The probes are still going with 1970's technology, WOW!
Truly magnificent probes, I would have named my daughter Voyager 1 but that would have been just absurd, so I named her Rosetta instead 😌
@@cholasimmons lol 👍🏻
The people who worked on both voyagers, must feel so much pride, joy and nostalgia and must be excited for the 50th anniversary. ❤
Probably dead
That's truly fascinating! Voyager 1 continues to amaze us with its capabilities, even from the depths of interstellar space. This incredible achievement not only highlights the marvels of human engineering but also keeps us connected to the mysteries of the universe.
Very good - I was 17 when Voyager 1 launched.
I was 16. This is amazing!! Go Voyager!!
@@A.J.Dubs26 get a room you two
I was 5 lol 😆
@@brandonquintana9943 😂 We all had to start somewhere..
Damn I wasn't even born until 20 years from then
I'm just worried when VGER comes back to destroy the carbon units!
😂
Perfect!
🥱
And here i can't make a simple phone call to my friend living 2 house down😂
"2 whole days" for data to be sent 30 billion miles. Dude, that's over 90% of the speed of light. Just insane - what an astounding thing to watch at 8am.
Data is sent at the speed f light which is as fast as it can go. The light photons travel at 300,000 km per second
@@walkerhjk I appreciate the input. My exclamation was neither corrective nor demeaning, only amazement. Being unfamiliar with the specifics of those individual transmissions, I did the quick math at 48 hours, but sounds like it was a few hours shy.
Wish my cell phone provider was half as good
It's heart warming to know a piece of old NASA is still killing it in deep space 50 years later - the brilliant, artisan NASA I grew up with, the NASA that would never have allowed Columbia off the launch pad the day of that avoidable tragedy.
To say they "really knew how to build them" back then, doesn't' even begin to express how wide the gap between old and new NASA.
Truly a dumb point of view, insulting to engineers and the challenges to overcome.
Maybe read up on the James Webb Space Telescope.
@@ro_valle you could also ellaborate more, honestly just as dumb as you claim the comment is, typical internet troll
@@markwakeley3835yeah....
it's all fine and well, except🤷♂️
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched into space on December 25, 2021, on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The rocket separated from the observatory 27 minutes into the flight, releasing the observatory at an altitude of approximately 75 miles (120 kilometers). The telescope folded up inside the rocket as it launched and will gradually unfurl as it travels to its destination beyond the Moon. V1 and 2 are basically doing the same but with a 44 year head start. The engineering feats of the 60s and 70s out pace current government engineers. F1 rocket motor from Saturn V, they cannot make a functioning one because of the loss of tech and how manufactured. Oh and in a parting note,
The JWST has more than 344 possible single points of failure in the system, meaning if anything went wrong it could jeopardize the entire mission.😒
Imagine if aliens arrive one day and the first thing they say is: "Hello, we found one of your probes. Thanks for the directions."
Impressive done by NASA's engineers and programmers! Well done.
Love this. I'm old enough that I remember my parents having me sit by the TV to watch the first moon landing. I had posters on my wall of "How to be an astronaut" and the planets.
for the last 20+ years I've been an ESL teacher (English for non-native English speakers), and I ALWAYS teach them "My Excellent Mother Just Made Us Noodles" (Pluto is gone, so I improvised): M-Mercury, V-Venus,
E-Earth, M-mars, J-Jupiter, U-Uranus, N-Neptune.
Within a few days, I will quiz them, "what is the 5th planet? Jupiter". They love it.
You're not doing your pupils any favors by telling them a mnemonic that misses out the Asteroid Belt and Pluto. Better to use Heinlein's catchy 'Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest.' T being Terra, A is Asteroids.
10:00 I doubt that any kind of advanced civilization will spot the Voyagers. Space is gargantuanly huge. The closest a Voyager will approach a star is in its Oort cloud, which itself is gargantuanly huge.
if only it had some kind of beacon on it, if we ever made a successor, it would have to be a recreation with redundancy and reliability tested based on what we have learned so far, have more efficiency due to refined manufacturing, potentially extending lifespan by orders of magnitude by relying on fewer watts to stay active, would ideally blink some message with some weak ir leds/lasers off into space, and that message would likely be binary code, as that concept is fairly easy to pick up on, we estimate, even for a non human advanced race to recognize based on general computing, there might be differences in allocations for byte sizes, but we could at least encode the messages in bursts with obvious pauses in between for ease of noticing the segment sizes, which would theoretically make it even easier to decode how to read it, and the message could be something as simple as a bitmap of a few low resolution depictions of earth and our solar system, much like a previous thing we did with data sent to space to see if anyone is listening, only this would be broadcast in ir instead of rf, and would travel SOL instead of the slightly slower rf speed. other improvements could be the use of fpgas, which allow for complete circuit restructuring in the case an individual transistor fails, we can zero out a unit, read it back, write all ones, read it back, determine where fault lies, and reprogram to not use that individual transistor, unlike voyagers 1 and 2 which had to disuse an entire memory bank from a single gate failure. At least, that's what I think would be ideal for a voyager successor, perhapse even including some kind of onboard computer interface and some data with absolutely minial input to output a few selected items, such as actual video recordings of our dictionaries with images when button 1 is pressed, images of our greatest scientific achievements and diagrams when button 2 is pressed, and yet more recordings of our planet, alongside images taken from our probes on mars, images taken from the moon. images of the sky relative to the moon, general things that would help them know where the point of origin is. IF potential contact of an intersteller race was considered, this "blackbox of humanity" would make the golden record look like a kiddy drawing.
@@SlavTiger I wonder how New Horizons will fare. Will it have the same robustness allowing it to continue sending back data on the interstellar medium for the next 40+ years?
It would have been nice to photograph the position of Betelgeuse for parallax, but apparently that would burn out its light receptors. Maybe that might be the last thing they do before shutting down is imaging system. Or maybe they could find a faint supergiant star for which they could still measure parallax, to give the astronomers necessary info on their actual power output.
@@JohnRandomness105 time will tell how it fares, hopefully well. I love astronomy
Voyager ❤
Anyone else feel like some other intelligence has found Voyager 1 and is like keeping it up to date with its shots? LOL
They listened to the record and sent back the message "Send more Chuck Berry".
Why haven’t we sent out new voyagers with better tech? We could literally view the cosmos in HD4K.
We are bro
9:17 The song “Delyo Haidutin” performed by the Rhodopean singer Valya Balkanska (Bulgaria) is included on the Voyager Golden Record on the US Space Probe Voyager 1 and 2 as part of the heritage humanity sent to the outer space to look for contact with other civilizations.
“NASAR” and “DATAR” killed me 😂😂😂. The accent. Haha. A gf of mines father was one of the lead scientists on Vger. Genius fella. Never got to meet him but heard amazing stories. So cool. This thing left when i was born
I was a junior in college in 77. It's mind boggeling.
It is strangely comforting to know that even NASA engineers first thought when their electronic gizmos act up is to restart it.😂
I was hoping for some new update but it was all stuff I knew already. Thanks anyway! I still like the video.
Just hearing aluminium. Was worth it!
The way you broke it down on that golden record, mahn, long live humans 👌
I had no idea V2 was launched before V1. Great trivia information.
It's absolutely fascinating that Voyager 1, a probe launched in 1977 with the primitive computing power of just 68 KB of memory, continues to send back data from 15.5 billion miles away! This survival and functionality beyond its original mission life not only celebrate human ingenuity but also pose an interesting question: What other 'old' technologies out there are still secretly outperforming our expectations? Could this teach us something about our current approaches to technology development?
I remeber when they launched. We studied them in science class. Just amazing.
Go, V-ger, Go!
I was thinking about V 'Ger while reading about all this and comments. Except that Star Trek: The Motion Picture V 'Ger is the mythical Voyager 6. (But 1 or 2 could become a sort of V 'Ger by 2270 - who knows!)
@@fiendishthingy1630 They are V-gers. So, they count. I LOVE how it's not impossible for it to actually happen, too.
Oh my childish glee when I heard the phrase "the probe's radioisotope thermoelectric generator's." I was saying to myself the only way that thing could be so far from earth and consistent solar energy (and still operate) is nuclear energy, if they choose an isotope with slow decay. I have a scientific mind but I have severe ADHD and studying and completing any task for that matter is extremely difficult. I wish I could get my my doctorate, I wish I could work for NASA or SPACEX but I am always sabotaging myself 😢 I am smart and stupid at the same time. It's painful. But little validating moments like this keep me breathing.
Congratulations, you human, like the rest of us. 😂
Ha, I've been a systems administrator for rocket scientists my whole career. I assure you, rocket scientists do plenty of silly things as well.
Working for these companies is overrated. Just Enjoy being an amateur observer of these scientific development. It's just as thrilling
Everyone is smart and stupid at the same time. Don’t let that stop you! It sounds like you have a brilliant mind. We need you! Go for it!!
V GER LIVES!
(Star Trek I)
Yes! Except V 'Ger was the mythical Voyager 6, in 2270.
@@fiendishthingy1630 Shhhhh! Don't spoil it lol
Thanks Destiny.
Voyageur: "They're coming. They're hungry."
Audio mixing on this video is incredible
An engineering miracle!
I was in grade 10 in high school when they were launched, it's truly amazing that they are still functional. The hard drive is the old platter type, the equivalent to an old IDE hard drive in your old, obsolete computer, they fail all the time.
There are no hard drives in the Voyager probes; they use a reel to reel data recorder with 1/2" 8-track tape. They were shut off many years ago to save power though so they are no longer functional. They were used for buffering photos and science data so they could be transmitted back to Earth.
How does this still get signal, but my phone can’t load a webpage with overcast some days.
higher sensitivity radio, more aggressive packet integrity checking, multiple pings for validation, most likely.
They don't make things like they used to. Good old 70's.
They do indeed don't make things like they used to. Now they make them better than they used to. Nostalgia blinders serve to weaken us, not empower us.
Maybe you should read up on the James Webb Space Telescope.
I wish we had like cryosleep or warplike engines, or both and could just go out on a journey to other solarsystems. I wouldn't say no to a trip like that
we have only in a simulated reality but i think that in itself is a great step and pretty awesome
That's how you get ants
You are in a pod right now dreaming.
Please if you can support me with this off my statement and the someone behind the solar system
Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
When will you be able to test and upoload af-tests of the new firmware? Please do it with wide aperture lenses as well, not only with the kit lens :) Thanks for your content, it's awesome!
really nice images of saturn lol. looks like it was drawn in the 70s with crayons. absolutely breath taking xD
Voyager 1 be like:
Nah, I'm fine.
I was studying Fortran in 1977, which I believe is the operating system that voyagers are using.
for anyone who doesnt understand how reprogramming can 'skip' memory cells, the trick is 'where is the bad memory', then as the executable code (binary level stuff) starts to 'approach' using memory, the programmers plop a 'goto' instruction, ie 'go to' the remainingGOOD memory. the executable program thus has UNUSED ALL ZEROS or whatever coinciding with the damaged area. IT NEVER GOES TO THAT AREA OF THE CODE BECAUSE ITS TOLD TO SKIP PAST IT.
WOW! It's amazing that the two Voyagers are still out there , working(be it, at a limited capacity) But still on mission. I was just a teenager of 15 when they were launched, and still remember that day my first semester in high school and my science teacher talked about it and was very excited! But the fact they're still working is a testament to the people at NASA! And it will be a sad day when they finally go dark.
Love it so much!!! So excited!!
One error in the vid, every time communication with earth is shown the dish is pointing away from us....
It's not that hard to spin the pic around, Voyager has been doing it for real all the time.
Yes more please 👌
Spectacular
I was thinking 'bout the engineers how genius they are they even repair the probe from the very astonishing billions of miles deepest universe💪
Thank you Voyagers!
When a reboot won't work, switch to backup computer. Problem solved. Why did that take so long? NASA - Never admit seeing Aliens.
the device is simple and reprogrammable enough that soft workarounds can fix hardware faults to a much larger extent than a lot of modern devices, one memory bank fails? split data across remaining functional banks. Part of computer a and part of redundancy computer B fail? Did the same part on both fail? Try to split function across what still works on each. I love the concept of soft bypasses like that.
Awesome !!
im kinda surprised there wasn't an auxiliary incase the chip was damaged, but at least they were able to fix it remotely tis time
Where do you get your video loops? I'm an educator and space music artist. I would love to use similar video loops. Thank you in advance.
I love space stuff. The people behind it all fascinate me. I wish I was engineer like them but I'm too stupid for that stuff
They also started not knowing anything about it, it's just learning and keeping that info in your head, you should always try man ❤
Maybe your not stupid, just ignorant (lacking knowledge). Ignorance is 100% curable!
We are already learning what is out there and, of course we are just taking our first steps. Even so...🖖
Hi, am interested in knowing what the power of the transmitter is in watts at the spacecraft, and what the receive power at earth is in watts per square meter, and what antenna is used to receive the data and what is the amount of power total received by such a large dish in watts, and how is communication even possible using such a tiny amount of power, what techniques are used to transmit and receive the data?
The transmitter on the probes is 23 watts, but by the time it reaches us the signal is less than one attowatt (a billionth of a billionth of a watt) according to NASA. We use an array of huge radio dishes to receive the signal, it's all pretty amazing.
@@magoffin i'm wondering if the signaling data rate is decreased in order to increase signal to noise ratio to receive the faint signal? Is the same symbol sent repeatedly and the receiver integrates over a certain time interval to increase signal-to-noise ratio of a given symbol when it's being received?
I’ve always wanted to know what Voyager has seen and sent images and information about back to nasa that hasn’t been released yet.
4:15 what kind of phones are you using? 32GB phones haven't been made in years...
Realy I like this video so so much like you can imagine
Wait till aliens track the signal and realize where it’s going.
Very interesting, of course, but too much is repeating what we already know about Yoyager (and its amazing success).
Wish NASA could re direct the probes to just turn and come back home. Time to send an updated, faster and more robust probes in the opposite directions.
I assume they meant storage instead of RAM when mentioning a phone with 32gb of 'memory'. But even then, it doesn't make much sense as that's pretty low for storage options.
what a nice presentation - why did you think you needed to have background music which only weakens the story?
hai guys space is cool ngl
Freezing actually 😂
@@ThatBoyBent i mean
Space doesn't exist
@@chaselewis3819 what's above the earth then
A dome, you seen the Truman show?
I was 7 years old when they left Earth😊❤
I swear every space video sounds like it’s narrated by Obsidian Ant
It's not computer stuff if you don't rebot the system when a problem arises..
It seems like NASA would send out another probe designed to explore deep space.
Is it fitted with an automatic stop feature in the event the end of the universe is a wall that they are able to reach?
That would make it imperative for it to not be damaged in a crash so it can come back to us.
An earlier generation created an incredible scientific workhorse that took almost 24 years to travel an "unbelievable 15.5 BILLION miles" yet today we find a national debt of 35 TRILLION dollars as no big deal. JJS
To boldly go where no space probe has gone before.
Immagine if those probes had a real time high quality camera wich recorded the entire voyage.
Who knows what those little spacecraft are seeing now in the interstellar space
Imagine a photo from them now but it had to shut down its camera to save power
Once again we (PWS) are ignored. Note it is PWS that verified Voyager 1 had entered the plasma environment of interstellar space. It is PWS that has been able to measure the varying plasma density in interstellar space. And, of course, it is PWS waveform data that gives us space audio. ;-)
Wonder if a chain of probes would work .
will they ever send a updated Voyager out
How do they keep the antenna pointing to earth with no fuel for its thrusters ?
So it looks like Star Trek The Motion Picture was a documentary. Something tells me that is the computer system was more modern, it would have crashed and burned by now, so having this "ancient" technology is actually better for it's future.
10:00 after this time. This video becomes relevant.
Voyager 1was launched to gather Intelligence on the Planet Nagarith, that had wandered into our Solar System 1960.
The question no one aske is why such a primative system obviously full to the brim keeps re-booting to send signals