Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space - BBC News

Nasa says its most distant probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth.

4 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, NASAImage caption, Artwork: The Voyager-1 probe was launched from Earth in 1977By Jonathan AmosScience correspondentThe US space agency says its Voyager-1 probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth after months of spouting gibberish. 

The 46-year-old Nasa spacecraft is humanity's most distant object.

A computer fault stopped it returning readable data in November but engineers have now fixed this.

For the moment, Voyager is sending back only health data about its onboard systems, but further work should get the scientific instruments back online.

Voyager-1 is more than 24 billion km (15 billion miles) away, so distant, its radio messages take fully 22.5 hours to reach us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68881369

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