ArticleBody:Voyager 1 defied the odds yet again—after over six months of technical issues potentially foreshadowing humanity’s final farewell to the historic spacecraft, NASA reports all four of the probe's instruments are “conducting normal science operations” once more.
In April, the team confirmed a successful partial fix after Voyager 1 regained the ability to beam back engineering data. According to NASA’s Thursday news post, mission engineers initiated the second step of the repair on May 19, instructing the spacecraft to begin returning its science data, as well. Two of the four equipment arrays restored normal operations immediately, while the other pair required a bit more backend work.