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- is there a way for Voyager 1 to be still accelerating? like, maybe it is unwanted, but could it, theoretically?by dgan
- So it is traveling 1/18250 the speed of light. That is pretty fast.by soniman
- Voyager I is leaving the solar system again! [1]by Animats
- And the closest known galaxy to the Milky Way, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, is just 25,000 light-years away - it's almost incomprehensible how vast the universe is!by zomtorg
- > the spacecraft, in flight since 1977, is cruising at nearly 38,000 mph (61,000 kph) through the vacuum of space,
The page takes great pains to explain things, but omits a frame of reference for this speed. I’m guessing it’s sun-relative, but it could be relative to its take-off on Earth. Does anyone know?
- Fun fact, Anthropic and OpenAI they have raised between them 70 Voyager programs (two probes) of cash in inflation adjusted dollars.by genxy
- Free space pathloss for rf signals is proportional to 1/r^2, absolutely bonkers we can get anything from voyager.by polalavik
- Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is so big that you simply never get anywhere.
No message you send out ever gets far enough for anyone to see it. No ship you send out ever reaches another system. It’s just a big empty void.
You stay in your own lame system, browsing lame terrestrial memes and never escape.