Re:NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to E...
by divbzero on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @04:30PM
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That’s pretty cool.
Wolfram Alpha also yields approx. 0.134 c for 1 week of travel time:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=distance+to+voyager+1+÷...
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Perhaps targeting 100 weeks of travel time would be more plausible:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=distance+to+voyager+1+÷...
0.00134 c is approx. two times the top speed of 0.00064 c for the fastest space probe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
If only we could harness gravity assist at will…
Edit: found a potentially easier (more intuitive to understand) query, giving the same result, as well as how to ask it nearly for the how manyth part of c this is. I'm still learning all the tricks of this tool :)