NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (.gov)— After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.

Phys.org—NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth. For the first time since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars).

FOX Weather—NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resumes sending data to Earth from interstellar space after 5-month outage. Cheers and applause erupted this weekend when NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sent back the first usable data from interstellar space after a five-month communication gap. Engineers with Voyager's flight team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have been troubleshooting an issue since November, when the spacecraft, more than 15.1 billion miles from Earth, began sending back nonsense computer code. On Saturday, after 45 hours of waiting to find out if their plan to send the...

TechSpot—NASA resumes communications with Voyager 1 probe after remote fix, 15 billion miles from Earth. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that Voyager 1 remains in good health. The team has identified the issue affecting the probe's ability to transmit valuable scientific data back to Earth, and engineers are now working to implement the necessary fix to reroute communications "around" the malfunctioning chip foundRead Entire Article