Voyager 1 spacecraft to reach light-day distance from Earth in 2026

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Voyager 1 will reach a light-day distance from Earth in November 2026. It will have traveled 16.1 billion miles. The spacecraft, launched in 1977, travels at 10.6 miles per second. It will take over 49 years to cover this distance. Voyager 1 left our solar system in 2012 and is currently studying interstellar space. Engineers recently fixed a computer glitch to restore data transmission.


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