Voyager 1 returning science data again
NASA Space Technology An illustration of one of the twin Voyager spacecraft now in interstellar space. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechWASHINGTON — The four instruments on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft are returning science data for the first time since a computer malfunction last November, as scientists hope to keep the mission operating for up to another decade.NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced June 13 that the four instruments on the spacecraft, which measure plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles in interstellar space, have started returning data again. Two of the instruments started up immediately after commands were sent to the spacecraft May 19 while the other two required what JPL called “some additional work” to resume operations.The instruments had been offline since November 2023, when a computer malfunction on board the spacecraft caused it to return garbled data. A...
