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NASA Reestablishes , Connection With Distant , Voyager 1 Space Probe.<br/>The news comes after engineers at <br/>the agency worked for months <br/>attempting to fix the 46-year-old probe.<br/>In December, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) <br/>said that the probe, now a staggering 15 billion miles <br/>away from Earth, was transmitting gibberish code. .<br/>On April 23, the JPL announced that <br/>the team was once again receiving <br/>usable data from the spacecraft.<br/>Currently, the probe is only <br/>transmitting data regarding the status <br/>of the ship's engineering systems.<br/>The next step is to enable <br/>the spacecraft to begin <br/>returning science data again, JPL statement, via 'The Guardian'.<br/>'The Guardian' reports that Voyager 1 has been in <br/>operation for nearly half a century after launching <br/>in 1977 with the goal of studying Jupiter and Saturn.<br/>In August of 2012, Voyager crossed into <br/>interstellar space, becoming the first <br/>human-made object to leave the solar system.<br/>The probe is currently traveling at a staggering <br/>36,800 miles per hour through space.<br/>NASA plans to collect data from the two <br/>Voyager spacecraft for a few more years, <br/>but the space agency expects to lose <br/>contact with the probes within the next decade