Voyager 1 reestablishes communication after silence for five-months

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2024

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, after a five-month hiatus, has resumed sending back engineering data, marking a critical milestone for the most distant human-made object in the universe. Since November, NASA had not received usable engineering data from Voyager 1 due to a malfunction in one of its three onboard computers, specifically the flight data subsystem (FDS). The FDS is crucial for pa