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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by kamaal on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:38AM (#36943240)
>>and gets 15km further away every second

>>I beg anybody to rephrase it understandingly with using some units similar to football fields.

More like it can go from Earth to Moon in like 8 hours(or so).

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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by ender341341 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:46PM (#36959579)
For reference

- my quick calculation shows just over 7 hours 6 minutes based of google saying the moon is 384,400 km away.

- It took 3 days for Apollo 11 to reach the moon.

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