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Voyager 1: Back in Contact After Technical Glitch

The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has re-established contact with NASA after a technical issue caused a communication outage for several days with the historic mission, which is billions of miles away in interstellar space.

Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter that it hasn't relied on since 1981 to stay in touch with its team on Earth while engineers work to understand the error.

As the spacecraft ages, the team has been slowly powering down components to conserve energy, allowing Voyager 1 to send back unique scientific data from its position 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away.

The probe is the farthest human-made object from Earth, operating outside the heliosphere (the bubble of magnetic fields and particles from the sun that extends beyond Pluto's orbit) where its instruments take direct samples of interstellar space.

This new problem is one of several the aging spacecraft has encountered in recent months, but the Voyager team continues to find creative solutions so the famous explorer can continue its cosmic journey through uncharted territory.