{
  "id": 19980516,
  "title": "Nasa’s Voyager 1 probe poised to achieve mega-distance milestone",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/nasas-voyager-1-probe-poised-to-achieve-mega-distance-milestone-19980516",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-14T11:53:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/11/14/nasa-s-voyager-1-probe-poised-to-achieve-mega-distance-milestone"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any other spacecraft from Earth and is nearing a major milestone. The robotic probe, which exited our solar system years ago and is now in interstellar space, will be just a light-day from our planet by Wednesday at 5:16 AM ET (1016 GMT). A light-day represents the distance light travels in 24 hours, approximately 16 billion miles or 26 billion kilometers. Voyager 1 is hurtling through space at nearly 38,000 miles per hour (61,000 kilometers per hour), allowing it to cover this immense distance in a relatively short time. Astrophysicist Alan Cummings, a long-standing Voyager program scientist, views the achievement as an engineering marvel, highlighting the probe's remarkable longevity and the challenge of maintaining communication with it at such vast distances.",
  "summary": "The probe, now travelling through interstellar space, is close to reaching a distance of one light-day from Earth.",
  "key_points": [],
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "NASA's Voyager 1 probe poised to achieve mega-distance milestone",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/nasas-voyager-1-probe-poised-to-achieve-mega-distance-milestone",
        "published": "2026-11-14T11:02:10.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "NASA’s Voyager 1 closes in on a light-day in interstellar space for a new distance record",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/nasas-voyager-1-closes-in-on-a-light-day-in-interstellar-space-for-a",
        "published": "2026-11-14T13:01:30.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}