NASA has calculated, to the precise second, when Voyager 1 will be exactly one light-day from Earth: 2:16 a.m. on 18 November 2026, at a distance of 16,094,799,096 miles — a number that would have been science fiction when the probe launched in 1977

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NASA has reduced one of the strangest milestones in human engineering to a timestamp. On Wednesday, 18 November 2026, at 2:16:07 a.m. PST, Voyager 1 will be 16,094,799,096 miles from Earth. That is not just a large number. It is the distance light travels in 24 hours, which means the spacecraft will become the first [...] The post NASA has calculated, to the precise second, when Voyager 1 will be exactly one light-day from Earth: 2:16 a.m. on 18 November 2026, at a distance of 16,094,799,096 miles — a number that would have been science fiction when the probe launched in 1977 appeared first on Space Daily .