TOKYO, April 24 -- NHK World issued the following news:
The US space agency NASA says it has received readable data from its Voyager 1 spacecraft for the first time in about five months. This comes after communications with the probe were disrupted.
NASA announced that its mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft on Saturday.
In 1977, Voyager 1 was launched to explore Jupiter and Saturn. It excited many space enthusiasts by sending clear images of patterns on Jupiter's surface and Saturn's rings.
Voyager 1 left the solar system and is now traveling about 24 billion kilometers from Earth. That is farther away from Earth than any other human-made object.
The probe continued transmitting observation information, but it stopped s...