After a few weeks, NASA was ready to uplink a solution to get the FDS to resume packing engineering data. This data stream includes information on the status of the spacecraft—things like power levels and temperature measurements. This command went up to Voyager 1 through one of NASA's large Deep Space Network antennas Thursday.

"Hi, it's me." NASA's Voyager 1 interstellar mission is getting back on track after a computer problem last year caused the spacecraft to send back gibberish.

After a sudden loss of contact in November, mission controllers were able to reestablish contact with the probe across 15bn miles of space

After months of trying to reestablish communication with the Voyager 1 probe — the most distant human-made object in existence — NASA finally announced success.

Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from Earth, communicates with NASA after it ceased returning comprehensible data in November of last year.