Voyager 1 Is Almost a Light-Day Away

Añadido: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]Soon, signals from Voyager 1 will take a full day to reach Earth.

[00:00:04]NASA expects the spacecraft to reach a distance of one light day from Earth in late 2026 or early 2027.

[00:00:12]At that moment, the intrepid spacecraft will be almost 25.9 billion kilometers or 16.1 billion miles from home.

[00:00:21]That means any command sent to Voyager 1 will need 24 hours just to arrive and another 24 hours for confirmation to come back. A simple response will take two [music] full days.

[00:00:32]Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now traveling through interstellar space far beyond the planets, still [music] sending data back from the edge of the solar system.