Voyager 1 to reach one light-day from Earth in 2026

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Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in November 2026, a record distance for a human-made object. The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is currently over 11 billion miles away and entered interstellar space in 2012. It travels at 38,000 miles per hour. Voyager 1 carries a Golden Record and continues to send data to NASA, marking humanity's presence far beyond the solar system.


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