Voyager 1 is back: 46-year-old NASA spacecraft sends data from all 4 instruments after going dark for months After nearly eight months, there is finally some good news! Nasa’s Voyager 1, which went silent in November 2023, is now fully operational again. All of its four science instruments are reportedly returning usable data to Earth. Last year in November, Voyager 1 began sending unintelligible data to Earth in place of its usual 0s and 1s binary code. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977, and it comes with no surprise that the 46-year-old spacecraft may have begun malfunctioning. The spacecraft is in an entirely uncharted interstellar territory, some 15 billion miles from Earth. That is 24 billion kilometers! According to experts, even if Voyager 1 went dark forever, it would still be deemed a successful mission. In 1977, when it was launched, the main objective was to study Jupiter and Saturn and this was accomplished by 1980.
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