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Voyager 1 reportedly nears one light-day from Earth

An October 5 post puts the probe roughly 15.9 billion miles away and says its signal takes nearly a day to reach Earth.

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A post says Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is still reporting from interstellar space roughly 15.9 billion miles from Earth. It describes a spacecraft with about 69 kilobytes of computer memory and a digital 8-track recorder that overwrites old data to make room for new data.

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@konstructivizmFifteen billion miles from home, the farthest machine humans have ever built is still doing science on less memory than a blank Word document and a data recorder that is, quite literally, an 8-track tape. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is roughly 15.9 billion miles out—closing in on one light-day from Earth—and still reporting from interstellar space with about 69 kilobytes of computer memory total, plus a digital 8-track that has to overwrite old data to make room for anything new. Its signal takes nearly a day to reach us, carried by a transmitter weaker than a hallway bulb.3h
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    @konstructivizmFifteen billion miles from home, the farthest machine humans have ever built is still doing science on less memory than a blank Word document and a data recorder that is, quite literally, an 8-track tape. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is roughly 15.9 billion miles out—closing in on one light-day from Earth—and still reporting from interstellar space with about 69 kilobytes of computer memory total, plus a digital 8-track that has to overwrite old data to make room for anything new. Its signal takes nearly a day to reach us, carried by a transmitter weaker than a hallway bulb.3h
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