Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

Nasa depiction of Voyager 1, which is approaching a half-century in operation. Photograph: AP

Earth’s most distant spacecraft, Voyager 1, has started communicating properly again with Nasa after engineers worked for months to remotely fix the 46-year-old probe.

Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which makes and operates the agency’s robotic spacecraft, said in December that the probe – more than 15bn miles (24bn kilometres) away – was sending gibberish code back to Earth.