After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, a team at the Jet Propulsion Lab has the spacecraft Voyager able to communicate again with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.
Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. After months of communication problems, Voyager 1 is talking again to scientists on Earth.In these challenging times, the need for reliable local reporting has never been greater. Put a value on the impact of our year-round coverage. Help us continue to highlight LA stories, hold the powerful accountable, and amplify community voices.
Voyager 1 had been faithfully sending back readings about this mysterious new environment for years — until November, when its messages suddenly became For the last five months, a small team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has been working to fix it. The team finally pinpointed the problem to a memory chip and figured out how to restore some essential software code.
The usable data being returned so far concerns the workings of the spacecraft's engineering systems. In the coming weeks, the team will do more of this software repair work so that Voyager 1 will also be able to send science data, letting researchers once again see what the probe encounters as it journeys through interstellar space.
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