All of Voyager 1's Science Instruments Have Resumed Data Reporting

June 14th, 4:00 PM EDT

By Paula Wethington

NASA's Voyager 1 space probe, file image

MGN via NASA

(NEWSnet) - NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is providing all of its routine science data reporting for the first time after a technical issue began in November.

The spacecraft's engineering data reports resumed in April. Then in May, the mission team was able to get a command to the spacecraft about other science data. Two of the science instruments resumed working immediately; and the other two are now returning usable data, NASA reported Thursday.

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NASA's social media team on the Voyager account quipped "finally feeling more like me" on a post made Thursday.

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Additional repairs and technical work include a resynchronize to the timekeeping software in the spacecraft’s three onboard computers; along with maintenance on the digital tape recorder, which sends data to Earth twice a year.

NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft lay claim to the “longest operating spacecraft in deep space,” having launched in 1977 and since expanded their journeys into interstellar space.

Voyager 1 is now more than 15 billion miles from Earth.

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