Voyaging into eternity: Nasa switches thrusters of probe 24 billion km away

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The engineers have been masterfully repurposing its thrusters for decades allowing the spacecraft to sail eternally through space.

What complicates the situation is the distance of the spacecraft, requiring the commands to be sent 24 billion kms across empty space, which takes over 22 hours to reach.

Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 38,000 miles per hour (with respect to the Sun), 35 degrees out of the ecliptic plane to the north, in the direction of the Solar Apex (the direction of the Sun's motion relative to nearby stars).