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This year, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft will hit a huge light-day milestone

In November 2026, NASA's Voyager 1 will reach an incredible milestone: one light-day from Earth, meaning its signals will ...
CNN

Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in 2026. Here’s what that means

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is ...
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What if Voyager 1 crashed on an alien planet?

Voyager 1 is on a journey that will outlast civilizations, outlive the Sun’s familiar neighborhood, and eventually drift into ...
Scientific American

Voyager 1’s Immortal Interstellar Requiem

In the fall of last year, one of NASA’s most venerable spacecraft started beaming home nonsense. Its usual string of 1’s and 0’s—binary code that collectively told of its journey into the ...