NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades

NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets in the solar system in 1977

This illustration provided by NASA depicts The most distant spacecraft from Earth, Voyager 1, is seen in this NASA illustration. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California announced this week that Voyager 1s four scientific instruments are back in business after a technical problem in November. (NASA via AP, File)

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The JPL said it will let go of 530 workers this week. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)