# Nasa spacecraft just days away from reaching historic milestone: ‘Astonishing!’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/nasa-spacecraft-just-days-away-from-reaching-historic-milestone-astonishing/
- Published: 2026-11-11T21:35:53+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T22:35:56+00:00
- Original publisher: GB News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.gbnews.com/science/sapce-nasa-voyager-light-day
- Topics: Space, Technology, World

## Key points

- Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth.
- The probe is about 16 billion miles away.
- Nasa invites the public to send a symbolic Morse-code greeting.

## Summary

Voyager 1 is expected to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth, a milestone that illustrates the scale of interstellar space and the challenge of communicating across it. Nasa is inviting people around the world to mark the occasion with a symbolic Morse-code greeting, celebrating a spacecraft that has continued operating far longer than its original mission.

The probe will be about 16 billion miles away, so a signal from Earth takes 24 hours to reach it. The public transmission of its call sign, “VGR”, is scheduled for 17 November, a day before the milestone; Voyager 1 cannot see the display because its cameras were switched off in 1990. Launched 48 years ago, it is powered by generators that convert heat from decaying plutonium into electricity.

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