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1. eimrin+m6[view] [source] 2023-07-31 11:18:28
>>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?

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2. elif+Az[view] [source] 2023-07-31 14:16:35
>>eimrin+m6
It's been travelling the width of the earth every 14 minutes for the last 47 years.

To reach the point 2 degrees from earth would take 1.64 years at that speed.

To reach that point before October 15th it would need to travel about 9x faster than falcon 9 second stage or almost twice as fast as the fastest spacecraft in history.

But it would need significant additional time and fuel to slow down such that it didn't immediately blow past that point and become useless, so it would need an even higher speed.

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