\n Members of the Voyager team celebrate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in months.
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<\/p>\n NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n Members of the Voyager team celebrate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in months.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n NASA says it is once again able to get meaningful information back from the Voyager 1 probe, after months of troubleshooting a glitch that had this venerable spacecraft sending home messages that made no sense.<\/p>\n The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes launched in 1977 on a mission to study Jupiter and Saturn but continued onward through the outer reaches of the solar system. In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space, the previously unexplored region between the stars. (Its twin, traveling in a different direction, followed suit six years later.)<\/p>\n Voyager 1 had been faithfully sending back readings about this mysterious new environment for years \u2014 until November, when its messages suddenly became incoherent.<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2024\/04\/22\/voyager1-happy_custom-d0c9c76960a48113e8bc0e4494efc292f2eda8b6-s1200.jpg\")
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