Go Voyager, Go!!

Official word from NASA this week is that Voyager 1 has just about reached the edge of the solar system!

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This is really exciting news, Voyager 1 will be the first man-made object to exit the solar system. It is completely amazing to me that we can still communicate with the spacecraft, and receive data from it... I sometimes can't get phone reception in Tesco!

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FYI, it takes the information sent by Voyager 1 16 hours and 38 minutes to get back to Earth, travelling a distance of about 17.8 billion km. Amazing.

Voyager 1 is the probe that took the 'Pale Blue Dot' photo and also carries Carl Sagan's 'Golden Record'. And it's one of my very favourite spacecrafts!