NASA Successfully Restores Contact with Voyager 1 After Months of Silence

Engineers overcome a critical computer glitch, enabling the spacecraft to resume sending data from interstellar space.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, began sending garbled data in November due to a computer malfunction.
Flight controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory implemented a coding workaround to bypass the faulty chip, restoring communication.
The spacecraft, now over 15 billion miles from Earth, continues to transmit engineering updates while efforts to restore full science data transmission are ongoing.
Voyager 1's mission, which includes studying the outer solar system and interstellar space, has been extended multiple times due to its enduring performance.
The twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, remains operational and continues its own distant space mission.