From wikipedia:<p>The rover, Yutu, reached the moon on 2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;14, encountered operational difficulties after about one earthly month, though it continued to gather useful information for some months afterward.<p>From the OP:<p>&quot;The rover has recently beamed back data&quot;<p>I haven&#x27;t found any explanation on how it started sending data again, if it just fixed itself, or if a patch was sent up etc...