In the last few day , there have beensome reportsthat the Voyager 2 ballistic capsule was hack in 2010 and even more importantly it was probably done by stranger . So let ’s have a look at the fact and permit ’s separate them from the rather obvious fable .
On May 6 , 2010 , NASA applied scientist put out apress releasethat the Voyager 2 has been channelise unreadable data for the past few calendar week . The cause of it all was a single computer bit that had flick , making the transmit data unclear .
The websitePhysics - Astronomyreported this last October , free-base on a story run by theTelegraphon May 14 , 2010 , with venture from German pseudoscience author Hartwig Hausdorf that the investigation was being hacked by aliens .
" It seems almost as if someone has reprogrammed or hijacked the investigation – thus perhaps we do not yet cognize the whole truth , ” Hausdorf told theGerman Newspaper Bild .
And he was partly correct . The whole verity would arrive out a few 24-hour interval by and by , when NASA confirmed that the suit was one somersault of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer and by May 20 , the whole system was back to beingfully operational .
The probe was neither reprogrammed nor hijacked . While the skill data was illegible , NASA could still get the health data of the craft , which shew everything was going fine and dandy . In all likeliness a natural international factor caused the bit to flip .
A cosmic ray – gamey - energy particle from interstellar space – might have been responsible for it . According to an extensiveIBM studyon the subject , computers on Earth experience one cosmic - electron beam - bring on error per 256 megabytes of RAM per calendar month .
The written report , which was commission in the ' 90s , is about Earth computers that are really being used quite safely within Earth ’s magnetic field . Voyager 2is at the edge of the Solar System , where cosmic sources of radioactivity are more intense . A software system mistake due to a cosmic ray is a possible explanation .
Voyager 2 is the third furthest human - made object from Earth , now at a distance of17 billion kilometers(10.6 billion mile ) almost 32 light - hour by . It ’s catching up to the second furthest object , Pioneer 10 , but will never beat up Voyager 1 , which is now in interstellar place .
