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Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear

100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from earth.

Boffins at the European Space Agency (ESA) are very pleased with themselves following confirmation that the de-icing process they devised for Euclid's optics has "performed significantly better than hoped."

Launched in 2023, the optics of the Euclid spacecraft have suffered from an accumulation of water ice . While the thickness of the ice was measured in nanometers, scientists could detect its impact through the drop in light observed from distant galaxies.

Due to the finely calibrated instruments onboard, simply heating up the spacecraft to get rid of the ice wasn't an option. Instead, engineers devised an approach in which each mirror would be heated in turn, and observations would be made to see what, if any, impact was made on light coming into the spacecraft.

The team wasn't even sure which of the mirrors was causing the problem but reckoned there was a good chance it was the first mirror they planned to heat.

Showing a flair for the dramatic, Micha Schmidt, Euclid Spacecraft Operations Manager, said, "It was midnight at ESOC mission control when we de-iced the first two mirrors in the procedure."

"We were very careful with our timings, ensuring we had constant contact between the spacecraft and our ground station in Malargüe, Argentina, so we could be ready to react in real time if there were any anomalies."

The team carefully heated the coldest mirror behind the main telescope optics – the prime suspect for the ice build-up – from -147°C to -113°C. " It worked like a charm! " said Mischa Schirmer, calibration scientist for the Euclid Consortium, "Almost immediately, we were receiving 15 percent more light from the Universe. I was certain that we would see a considerable improvement, but not in such a spectacular way."

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Schirmer is one of the main designers of the de-icing plan.

The success also means that scientists now know exactly where the ice formed. Although more ice is expected to form over the coming months, the decontamination procedure can be folded into normal operations for the spacecraft.

Reiko Nakajima, VIS instrument scientist, said, "Euclid's 'eye' has been cleared, allowing it to clearly see faint light from distant galaxies, and more of them than would otherwise be possible without this operation." ®

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GAMMA ' VOYAGER The dark of the sky ' the light of the moon The solitary figure will be home real soon He has braved the storms of time ' his life is on the line He's been prayin' to his saviour Please take me away from here The man on the ship - has a lot to fear He hasn't seen home - in almost a year When darkness falls ' he goes by the stars Getting directions from Jupiter and Mars It was he who created this strife He is fighting for his life He is longing to see ' His wife and his family CHORUS then SOLO Well will things be the same ' When he gets home again Will his children still remember ' The man who went away The year that has gone past ' All the places he has been He'll remember to the last ' The worlds that he has seen CHORUS Oh oh oh Fade to end

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Voyager 1’s Communication Malfunctions May Show the Spacecraft’s Age

People aren’t the only ones subjected to the aches and pains of aging. spacecraft are too, as voyager 1’s trip through space suggests..

As it turns out, spacecraft aren’t immune to age. In November 2023, NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft started sending a stream of nonsense to Earth, spewing out signals without any morsel of meaning . Members of the Voyager 1 mission team are rushing to resolve the issue in the aging spacecraft and are relatively optimistic after receiving a more meaningful response from the spacecraft this month.

But the ongoing breakdown in communication casts doubts on the durability of the probe and about why its systems are so prone to problems — a product, it seems, of the passage of time.

Read More: The Best of Voyager: The Longest-Running Space Mission in History

What Went Wrong with Voyager 1?

Sent into space in 1977 as part of NASA’s Voyager mission , the Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled more than 15 billion miles through space. Throughout its travels, the spacecraft has collected information about its surroundings and its status while drifting deeper and deeper into the universe, compiling insights on the outer solar system and the space beyond the outer solar system alongside its twin, the Voyager 2 spacecraft .

The probe has had its fair share of bugs throughout the course of its trip, with one of its biggest blips beginning in November. Though the spacecraft continues to receive and respect the commands of the Voyager 1 mission team, its communication system started to fail at around that time, meaning the spacecraft cannot send meaningful signals of its own. Instead, it’s stuck returning a repeating sequence of ones and zeros, rather than its typical output of important insights condensed in convenient bundles of binary code.

As of now, the problem seems to persist, interrupting Voyager 1’s interstellar investigation. But this isn’t the only problem that’s troubled the probe. In fact, after almost fifty years of flight, Voyager 1 is increasingly showing signs of its age.

Read More: Voyager: The Man Behind the Mission

Why Is Voyager 1 Prone to Problems?

Initially intended to study Jupiter and Saturn , Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were built to survive only five years of flight. But as their flybys of the two planets came to a close and as their trajectories forged further and further into space, it seemed a shame to cut their travels short. In time, their two-planet mission transformed into a four-planet mission, and their four-planet mission transformed into an interstellar mission, as the probes became the first spacecraft to shoot into the space between stars, in 2012 and 2018 respectively.

Since then, though, Voyager 1’s smooth sailing has become bumpier and bumpier, possibly a product of age. In 2017, for instance, the probe’s primary thrusters started to struggle, pushing the Voyager 1 team to switch to its secondary thrusters to maintain its ability to align itself for communication. And in 2022, Voyager 1’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS) met with a malfunction of its own, reducing the spacecraft’s messages to meaningless nonsense , a lot like the issue that started in November.

Aside from these issues, it’s the diminishing power supplies of the aging spacecraft that pose the biggest problems: As their power diminishes, scientists are slowly switching off some of their scientific instruments in an attempt to save others. It’s a strategic move, as mission team members attempt to get as much information out of the probes as possible, though issues, including the ongoing Voyager 1 glitch, only get in the way of that goal.

Read More: Voyager: What’s Next for NASA’s Interstellar Probes?

What Will Fix Voyager 1?

Identifying the issue in the spacecraft’s computers, the Voyager 1 mission team concluded that the current conundrum arose from a “ corrupted section ” in the software of one of Voyager 1’s communication systems, called the flight data subsystem (FDS). This subsystem bundles the information collected by the probe before it is beamed back to the mission team.

In December, the mission team restarted the FDS, though the restart failed to return the subsystem to its functional state. In the aftermath of the attempt, the team then decided to send a command called a “ poke ” to the probe on March 1. The poke was cautiously considered and planned to push the corrupted subsystem to work around its corruption.

A response was received on March 3, not nonsense, but still difficult to discern. The delay in the response was anticipated — it takes 22.5 hours for signals to reach the probe and another 22.5 hours for signals to reach the mission team — but the response was cryptic. It wasn’t until March 10 that the mission team members determined the response carried a readout of the FDS memory, including its initial instructions as well as its altered code, whether altered by command or by the status of the spacecraft.

By comparing the readout to those received before the issue began, it is possible that the team will identify the source of the problem, as well as its solution. But that “ will take time ,” according to a NASA press release — a particularly precious resource for the aging probe.

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