The Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning some insane data from interstellar space that has NASA engineers scratching their heads.
Statements on the spacecraft’s orientation from the 1970s now appear to be randomly generated or do not reflect any possible scenario the spacecraft may be in, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials said this week.
The problematic data comes from what is known as the Attitude Articulation and Control System, or AACS, the onboard device that measures…