Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System?

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A Voyager update: Engineers are still working to resolve a data issue on Voyager 1. We can talk to the spacecraft, and it can hear us, but it's a slow process given the spacecraft's incredible distance from Earth.

We’ll keep you informed on its status.
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Engineers Working to Resolve Issue With Voyager 1 Computer – The Sun Spot

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Looks like the moment that we have all been dreading for the past 46 years has finally arrived. But I suppose Voyager 1 has had a good run. That will just leave Voyager 2.
 
Yes. The Voyagers each get around 8 hours of DSN time every day.
 
The twin Voyager spacecraft launched almost five decades ago, and there's no reason they shouldn't keep going for a billion years, one of its scientists, Alan Cummings told Business Insider.

Cummings started working on the Voyager mission when he was a graduate student at Caltech in 1973, about four years before the two spacecraft launched.

Now a senior research scientist at Caltech, Cummings has seen the program dwindle from over 300 people to fewer than a dozen.
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The Voyager spacecraft will probably last a billion years, says a scientist on the mission for nearly 5 decades

The Voyager spacecraft will run out of fuel soon, but a longtime mission scientist says they may continue traveling interstellar space for eons.
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One problem with this senario is that both Voyager probes will have run out of fuel to continue to communicate with Earth and quite possibly far too distant anyway to try, so we will not even know what discoveries they make sadly. :(
 
FighterJock said:
One problem with this senario is that both Voyager probes will have run out of fuel to continue to communicate with Earth and quite possibly far too distant anyway to try, so we will not even know what discoveries they make sadly. :(
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The Main problem is that nuclear power source run out around 2036
The other Problem the Deep Space Network will be unable to receive the faint radio transmission from Voyager probes end 2020s.
oddly Voyager 2 show no issue, Voyager 1 has.
who respond on NASA communications, but still is unable to send scientific or systems data back.

In mean time some people in social media believe that Voyager 1 is used to send a message from...
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Grey Havoc said:
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NASA's Voyager 1 Probe May Have Left Solar System: Study

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft — the farthest-flung object created by human hands — has traveled beyond the sun's sphere of influence and may even have left the solar system forever, a new study suggests.
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Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn (Daily Telegraph)
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Confirming their hypothesis, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California confirmed a small portion of corrupted memory caused the problem. The faulty memory bank is located in Voyager 1's Flight Data System (FDS), one of three computers on the spacecraft. The FDS operates alongside a command-and-control central computer and another device overseeing attitude control and pointing.

The FDS duties include packaging Voyager 1's science and engineering data for relay to Earth through the craft's Telemetry Modulation Unit and radio transmitter. According to NASA, about 3 percent of the FDS memory has been corrupted, preventing the computer from carrying out normal operations.
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"The team suspects that a single chip responsible for storing part of the affected portion of the FDS memory isn’t working," NASA said in an update posted Thursday. "Engineers can’t determine with certainty what caused the issue. Two possibilities are that the chip could have been hit by an energetic particle from space or that it simply may have worn out after 46 years."
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NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix

"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
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We have #Voyager1 science data!

On May 19, mission scientists resumed receiving data from two of the four science instruments aboard our 46-year-old spacecraft.

Next up: Recalibrating the two remaining instruments, which could take weeks.
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Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data from Two Instruments - Voyager

Voyager 1 has resumed returning science data from two of its four instruments for the first time since a computer issue arose with the spacecraft in November
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Good to see that Voyager is now returning data back to Earth after the technical issue back in November. I wish that it is going to be the last problem that Voyager 1 has.
 
That is sad, I wonder what the next instrument will be to get shut down to preserve Voyager 2s power.
 
I can totally agree with you Archibald 2024 is fast aproaching the end and soon to be 2025, both Voyagers have done well enough to get this far. Let's see how far they can go it will be good to see both probes last beyond 2025.
 
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I can totally agree with you Archibald 2024 is fast aproaching the end and soon to be 2025, both Voyagers have done well enough to get this far. Let's see how far they can go it will be good to see both probes last beyond 2025.
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I agree too with you guys but the gold plated record I think also includes 1970's Disco music, this is not good, hostile alien lifeforms invading earth wearing polyester leisure suits and white patent leather shoes, oh the humanity of it all!
 

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