Voyager 1 – 100 AU Out and Still Going

Voyager The guys could build them pretty good back they couldn’t they? 30 years and it can still send back science data.

Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means the spacecraft, which launched nearly three decades ago, will be 100 times more distant from the sun than Earth is.

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