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>>belter+(OP)
> The probe is currently around 32 billion kilometers from Earth, and gets 15km further away every second.

I beg anybody to rephrase it understandingly with using some units similar to football fields. Is it possible to launch a little cheap rocket with a transmitter just to correct Voyager's position?

>>eimrin+m6
Apparently 32 billion km is about 29.65 light hours, so to catch up we'd need a magical massless spacecraft to travel at the speed of light for a bit over a day to reach it. Hopefully that demonstrates how utterly infeasible it would be to reach it.

It's also near the end of its usable life so it wouldn't be worth it anyway.

And actually, according to https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ it's actually 19,936,472,690 km from Earth so I think like 20ish light hours or so.