A spacecraft no larger than a small car, launched the year Star Wars came out, is still moving outward at 38,000 miles per hour far beyond the orbit of Pluto — and the radio signals it sends home, traveling at the speed of light, now take more than 23 hou

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• Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission and is still flying 49 years later, now so far away that in November 2026 a radio signal will take a full 24 hours to reach it — so when engineers say "good morning" on a Monday, the answer won't arrive un 19FortyFive · 1d ago
• A probe is about to enter a realm humanity has only imagined until now Futura, le média qui explore le monde · 1d ago
• NASA Launched It In 1977, Nearly 50 Years Later, It's Still Talking To Earth News18 · 1d ago
• The 49-Year-Old Spacecraft Still Talking From Deep Space HackerNoon · 1d ago
• It's Official: Voyager 1 Will Break A Cosmic Record, Reaching 1 Light-Day From Earth On November 18, 2026 IFLScience · 1d ago
• Voyager 1 has been travelling non-stop since 1977, faster than a speeding bullet every second of every day, and it has not yet reached the distance of a single light-year from Earth Space Daily · 1d ago broke it first
• A spacecraft no larger than a small car, launched the year Star Wars came out, is still moving outward at 38,000 miles per hour far beyond the orbit of Pluto — and the radio signals it sends home, traveling at the speed of light, now take more than 23 hou Space Daily · 1d ago broke it first

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