Voyager 1 Spacecraft Resumes Transmitting Usable Data
In a remarkable achievement, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, humanity’s most distant artificial object, has resumed sending usable data back to Earth after months of transmitting incomprehensible information. The issue began when a faulty chip in the spacecraft prevented it from accessing a critical segment of software code required for data transmission to Earth, causing the garbled signals.
Voyager-1’s Mission and Journey
Voyager-1 was initially designed to explore the outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. After completing this mission in 1989, it was directed towards interstellar space and crossed the heliosphere, the domain of the Sun’s emitted gas, in 2012. It is now embedded in the interstellar medium, which contains particles from other stars.