- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is transmitting data again after a technical problem in November.
- Voyager 1 sails through space between star systems on a mission to collect information about plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles.
- Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth. Its twin, Voyager 2, is more than 12 billion miles away.
NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is once again sending scientific data.
Voyager 1's four instruments are back online after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received significant information from Voyager 1 in April and recently ordered it to begin studying its environment again.
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This illustration provided by NASA shows the most distant spacecraft from Earth, Voyager 1. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California announced this week that Voyager 1's four scientific instruments are back in operation after a technical problem in November. (NASA via AP, File)
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 travels 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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Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth. Its twin Voyager 2, also in interstellar space, is more than 12 billion miles away.
