NASA’s Voyager 1 Is About to Become the First Spacecraft One Light-Day From Earth
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Voyager 1 is nearing a distance from Earth that light takes a full day to cross, while NASA engineers stretch its dwindling power to keep it exploring. NASA’s Voyager 1, humanity’s most distant spacecraft, was about 16 billion miles (25.75 billion kilometers) from Earth when its radio signal disappeared in October. NASA’s Deep Space Network, [...]
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