The Voyager 1 space probe sends data again after a computer problem Photo: NASA
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 ordered it to start studying its environment again.
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.
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NASA engineers managed to breathe new life into Voyager 1, the spacecraft launched in 1977 and once again communicating after it fell silent seven months ago.
Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are a treasure to NASA not only because they have sent home amazing images of the outer planets, but also because, in their decaying state, they are still doing science that cannot be duplicated. easily.
They are now in interstellar space, far beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto.
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