Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from earth
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft will reach a historic milestone on November 15, 2026, when it becomes one light-day away from Earth at 16.1 billion miles distance. Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, the probe entered interstellar space in 2012 and now travels at 11 miles per second, making it humanity's most distant object. Communication takes a full day each way, demonstrating the immense scale of space exploration and the remarkable endurance of this nearly 50-year-old mission.
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