NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again.
Voyager 1’s four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received meaningful information again from Voyager 1 in April, and recently commanded it to start studying its environment again.
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Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is drifting through interstellar space, or the space between star systems. Before reaching this region, the spacecraft discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons. Its instruments are designed to collect information about plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles.
Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles from Earth. Its twin Voyager 2 — also in interstellar space — is more than 12 billion miles away.
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is back online following a technical malfunction. It is over 15 billion miles away from Earth, transmitting data in interstellar space. 0f146b39-833e-51c0-94c9-b11153020002, fnc, Fox News, fox-news/science/air-and-space/nasa, fox-news/topic/associated-press, fox-news/science/air-and-space, fox-news/science, article Daily Science News on Fox News