Florida – The POT finally received a coherent signal from Voyager 1 again.
The most distant space probe in the world Land It stopped sending intelligible data since last November. Flight controllers determined that the break in communication was due to a malfunction in a cyber chip and reorganized the ship's code to resolve the problem.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California, declared the procedure a success after receiving proper engineering updates last week. The team continues to work to restore the transmission of scientific data.
It takes 22 1/2 hours for a signal to reach Voyager 1, which is more than 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. The signal travel time is twice as long for a round-trip message.
Contact was never lost, but was like making a phone call where you can't hear the person on the other end of the line, a JPL spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 has explored interstellar space, which is the space between star systems, since 2012. Its twin, Voyager 2, is 12.6 million miles away and still doing well .