Voyager 1’s Data Flow Restores Scientific Research in Interstellar Space

NASA’s Voyager 1, the spacecraft farthest from Earth, has resumed sending scientific data after a computer problem in November. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced this week that Voyager 1’s four instruments are back in operation. The team received meaningful information from Voyager 1 in April and recently instructed it to begin studying its environment once again. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is currently traveling through interstellar space, the space between star systems.

Voyager 1 is currently over 15 billion miles (24.14 kilometers) from Earth, while its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, is also in interstellar space and more than 12 billion miles (19.31 kilometers) away. The Associated Press Health and Science Department is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is responsible for all content related to health and science news.