Signals from Earth now take 23 hours and 9 minutes to reach Voyager 1, with an equal delay for a response. Looking ahead, #NASAVoyager 1 is expected to reach a distance of one light-day (~ 25.9 billion km) from the Sun in January 2027, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of its launch. 1/ #NASA - ThreadSky

explorecosmos.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Signals from Earth now take 23 hours and 9 minutes to reach Voyager 1, with an equal delay for a response.

Looking ahead, #NASAVoyager 1 is expected to reach a distance of one light-day (~ 25.9 billion km) from the Sun in January 2027, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of its launch. 1/

#NASA

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andreasng.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ahhhhhh cool!

explorecosmos.bsky.social•20 days ago

While the spacecraft is likely to remain operational, engineers may need to shut down additional scientific instruments as its radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) continue to lose power. 2/

explorecosmos.bsky.social•20 days ago

Despite its immense distance, #Voyager1 remains humanity’s farthest-reaching probe. For comparison, the closest star system, Proxima Centauri, lies 4.24 light-years away, a journey that would take Voyager 1 around 74,000 years at its current velocity (~17 km/s). 3/

explorecosmos.bsky.social•20 days ago

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 carries the Golden Record, a message intended for any potential extraterrestrial civilizations. 4/

explorecosmos.bsky.social•20 days ago

Though its scientific instruments will eventually cease functioning, the spacecraft itself may drift through interstellar space for millions of years, long after Earth’s civilizations have changed or disappeared. 5/5

vakaastra.bsky.social•20 days ago

The Internet Archive has lots of Voyager Documents for viewing & download . The PDR for Voyager is a wonderful insight to how such long duration spacecraft were builds and the many issues they considered before selection . Good lessons learned there .!

jijugo.bsky.social•14 days ago

🛰️ '77 👉 As old as me 😅

reincarnatedinc.bsky.social•20 days ago

I never knew about the whole Anniversary thing! How cool is that?

warrensenders.bsky.social•20 days ago

Voyager carries a selection of Earthly music. This totally delightful book tells the story of how those tracks came to be included.

mrstompy.bsky.social•20 days ago

We seem like we are way, way stuck in this solar system… at least at those speeds. Even 10x faster would leave you 8000 years to Proxima B.

phoenician.bsky.social•19 days ago

I recall reading about a project to build a micro probe, wrap it in a solar sail, aim a series of ground- or moon-based lasers at it, and push it to ~10% of the speed of light. 40 years to Alpha Centauri. Unmanned, of course.

wantofaname.bsky.social•20 days ago

That's cool!

dodibes.bsky.social•20 days ago

I love it that it just keeps going, what a technological wonder! Amazing!

smknjohnny17.bsky.social•20 days ago

unless we use technology which would make rocket power obsolete; we are doomed to spend life in our own backyard!

markshapiro12.bsky.social•20 days ago

Slower than my ex’s texts

vakaastra.bsky.social•20 days ago

That is great..! The Old Ones are sending a sign .!

how-are-u.bsky.social•20 days ago

We are capable of such amazing things.

reincarnatedinc.bsky.social•19 days ago

Potential. We show so much.

solveforgenx.bsky.social•20 days ago

I will never not be amazed and ever so slightly (actually very) emotional about the Voyager probes way way out there

This website gives their locations relative to us and it’s just stunning

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_1

ohsherry.bsky.social•20 days ago

Me too, amazed and emotional.

walleyed1.bsky.social•20 days ago

Still beats my communications with my ophthalmologist’s office by like 3 weeks

petern06.bsky.social•19 days ago

🖖

omaker.bsky.social•20 days ago

📌

robertstanley.bsky.social•20 days ago

I was born in the Year of Voyagers. 😃

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