NASA’s Voyager 1 to hit new space distance record of one light-day
Summary
NASA’s Voyager 1 is expected to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth, about 16 billion miles, on Wednesday. Launched in 1977, the probe is travelling through interstellar space and continues to send scientific data to Earth.Key Facts
- One light-day is the distance light travels in 24 hours.
- Voyager 1 completed its Saturn flyby in 1980, ending its primary planetary mission.
- The probe travels at roughly 36,000 miles per hour.
- Voyager 1 sends data on magnetic fields, pressure, dust and galactic cosmic rays.
- NASA engineers send commands to the probes about once a week and more often when needed.
- NASA briefly lost contact with Voyager 1 in October and has not determined the cause.
- Voyager 2 is expected to reach one light-day from Earth in 2035.
- Voyager 1 took the “Pale Blue Dot” photograph of Earth in 1990.
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