NASA engineers have managed to get the long-running Voyager 1 house probe absolutely again in working order after some seven months of technical difficulties. In November 2023, the spacecraft — which is greater than 15 billion miles from Earth — began sending again unusual, , and the crew has been working ever since to get to the basis of the problem. Whereas Voyager 1 appeared to be receiving and executing instructions simply superb, not one of the science and engineering information it despatched handmade sense.

In , the crew traced the issue to some corrupted reminiscence within the probe’s flight information subsystem (FDS) laptop and was later capable of get two of its devices sending science information once more. Now, all 4 of Voyager 1’s devices are again to sending readable information, says. Voyager 1 launched in 1977, so the truth that it’s nonetheless getting in any capability is unbelievable. However now, it may resume its duties instantly finding out interstellar house.