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Old 04-02-2006, 07:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Voyager is very very far away

Read somewhere that the voyager spacecraft is 8 billion miles away and that a radio signal from a 250ft dish running 20kw, takes around +- 12 hours to get there.Thats travelling at 186,000 miles per second

With these vehicles running on nuclear fision, I think that good going considering the distance and how weak the signal must be.
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