What milestone will Voyager 1, NASA's venerable spacecraft, soon reach?

December 8, 2011 By News Staff

Answer:

Voyager 1 will soon be the first man-made object to travel beyond our solar system and into interstellar space. Data analyzed at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union confirms Voyager 1 is more than 11 billion miles from Earth and that the craft will leave the solar system in the coming months or years.

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SoutheastUS | Commented December 8, 2011

How can they know that? Surely Voyager's radio died long ago. Are they just projecting the trajectory last observed? Maybe our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will find it out there in the future.

wandergone | Commented December 8, 2011

V'ger..

J P Dolan | Commented December 8, 2011

Nope, it's not dead. It's powered by a nuclear reaction (plutonium I think) and should be functional for several more years.

Lt. Ilia | Commented December 9, 2011

Must join with the creator

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