NASA's Voyager 1 finally starts making sense again as it transmits useable ... trends now
The decades-old NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun sending readable communications again after months of transmitting gibberish.
Voyager 1 has been sending data from interstellar space back to Earth for nearly fifty years after being launched in 1977.
However, in November a glitch occurred that made the spacecraft's data about its environment and the health of its own systems unintelligible to the NASA scientists monitoring it.
Then on April 20 Voyager 1, that began by visiting Jupiter and Saturn before venturing further into space, returned readable communications, confirming it is still safely cruising outer space.
NASA's official Twitter account for the craft posted a light hearted tweet in celebration: 'Hi, it's me. - V1'.
The decades-old NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun sending readable communications again after months of transmitting gibberish
The account also shared a tweet from the official account for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showing an image of the elated scientists clapping with joy at Voyager 1's latest data set.
'Sounding a little more like yourself, #Voyager1' the account wrote.
'For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems' it explained.
Adding: 'Next step: Enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.'
The Voyager flight team traced the November glitch back to a single chip malfunction in the flight data subsystem the part responsible for sending its data back to Earth.
The broken chip held some of the computer code necessary for transmitting workable data.
'The loss of that code rendered the science and
