Voyager 1 Restored to Full Functionality After Technical Malfunction

NASA engineers remotely fix 47-year-old spacecraft, resuming its interstellar mission

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now fully operational after a seven-month malfunction.
The spacecraft had been sending unintelligible data due to a faulty chip in its flight data subsystem.
NASA engineers identified the issue and devised a remote workaround to restore functionality.
All four scientific instruments on Voyager 1 are now back online, gathering data on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and particles.
Further maintenance is needed to resynchronize timekeeping software and perform digital tape recorder upkeep.