The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to - TopicsExpress



          

The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. Voyager-1 left Earth on 5 September 1977. Today, the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from home. This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth. Voyager-1 will not get near another star for another 40,000 years, even though it is moving at 45km/s (100,000mph). ... that last statement just blew a fuse in my imagination!
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:25:16 +0000

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