V-ger 1 has reached The Final Frontier
Posted on May 27, 2005, under Current Events.
Voyager 1 has left the building! Pretty cool - I wish we could get some photos back. The Hubble opened my eyes to a lot of the beauty in space, I’d be really curious to know what space looks like where Voyager 1 is at.
Here are some cool quotes from the linked article:
Long-lived nuclear batteries are expected to provide electrical power until at least 2020 when Voyager 1 will be more than 13 billion miles from Earth and may have reached interstellar space.
As of Jan. 5, 2004, a command signal sent from one of the antennas, traveling at the speed of light, took about 12 hours and 39 minutes to reach Voyager 1. There are only three antennas powerful enough to reach the probe.
..and is now speeding outward from the Sun at nearly 1 million miles per day, a rate that would take it from Los Angeles to New York in less than four minutes.
Space.com also has their Top 10 Voyager Facts.