Interstellar Voyager 1 takes up operations after a break in communication with NASA

NASA confirmed that after a break in communications with traveling 1 at the end of October, the spacecraft found its voice and resumed regular operations.

Traveling unexpectedly turned off its primary radio transmitter, known as its X band, before turning its much lower S transmitter in October.

The interstellar spacecraft is currently located approximately 15.4 billion kilometers from the earth and the S band has not been used for over 40 years.

Communication between NASA and travel 1 has sometimes been uneven and the transition to the lower band prevented the Mission Voyager team from downloading scientific data and information on the status of the spaceship.

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The NASA travel 1 spacecraft is represented in the concept of this artist traveling through the interstellar space, or the space between the stars, in which he entered in 2012. (NASA / JPL-CALTECH)

Earlier this month, the team was able to reactivate the X-band transmitter and resume data collection from the four operational science instruments on board 1.

Now that the data can be collected and communications have taken up, engineers finish some remaining tasks to bring back 1 to the state in which it was before the issue of the problem. A task is to reset the system that synchronizes the three on -board computers to travel 1.

The S band was activated by the waterproof vessel protection system when the engineers activated a radiator on Voyager 1.. The defect protection system determined that the probe had not automatically disabled systems that were not necessary to maintain the flight spacecraft to continue to ensure critical systems.

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The NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this illustration, has explored our solar system since 1977, with its twin, travel 2. (NASA / JPL-CALTECH)

But in the process, the probes have disabled all non -essential systems with the exception of scientific instruments, said NASA, deactivating the X strip and activating the S band, which uses less power.

Traveling 1 had not used the S band to communicate with the earth since 1981.

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This illustration provided by NASA represents the spaceship most distant from the earth, traveling 1. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California announced this week that the four scientific instruments of Voyager 1 were back in business after a technical problem. (NASA via AP, file)

The Odyssey to travel 1 started in 1977, when the spaceship and its twin, traveling 2, were launched during a visit to the giant gas planets of the solar system.

After bringing back the views of dazzling postcards on the giant red spot of Jupiter and the shimmering rings of Saturn, traveling 2 hopscotchot to Uranus and Neptune. Meanwhile, traveling 1 used Saturn as a gravitational sling to spread before Pluto.

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There are 10 scientific instruments on each spacecraft, and according to NASA, four are currently used to study particles, plasma and magnetic fields in interstellar space.