Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly...
SCIENCE
July 18, 2026
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond the planets.
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond the planets.
Author: Space Daily
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