NASA says Voyager 1 will cross one light-day from Earth—about 16.1 billion miles—at 5:16 a.m. ET on Nov. 18, making it the most distant human-made object ever. The probe, launched in the 1970s, has traveled at roughly 37,763 mph since a 1980 Saturn flyby. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently shut down several onboard systems and activated lower-power alternatives in an effort called 'The Big Bang' to conserve its dwindling power supply.
cnet.com
· 2026-11-09
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching a distance from Earth equal to one light-day, meaning radio signals will take a full 24 hours to travel one way between the probe and mission controllers. The milestone underscores how far the 1977-launched spacecraft has traveled into interstellar space.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-11-02
NASA has posted a countdown clock marking the moment Voyager 1, launched nearly 50 years ago, will become the first human-made object to travel one light-day from Earth—about 16 billion miles—on Nov. 18, 2026. The spacecraft, originally built for a five-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn, travels at roughly 37,844 mph and has survived a 2024 memory glitch and a recent emergency power shutdown.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-01
NASA says Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth—about 16 billion miles—at 5:16:07 a.m. EST on Nov. 18, 2026. Its twin, Voyager 2, which took a different trajectory past Uranus and Neptune, is expected to reach the same milestone in November 2035.
science.nasa.gov
· 2026-10-31
The nonprofit Fermi Explorer Mission, led by Philip Johnston, has spent a year designing a low-cost interstellar spacecraft meant to actually launch toward Alpha Centauri, unlike Yuri Milner's stalled Breakthrough Starshot project. Facing a persistent engineering puzzle over powering a lightweight solar craft without adding excessive weight, the team turned to artificial intelligence tools to help chart a viable trajectory. The mission, backed by private donors and budgeted at $15 million, plans to carry a small payload including art, messages, and a copy of the Golden Record.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-01
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