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Voyager 1’s signal takes over 22 hours to reach Earth. Even space leaves you on read.

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Because radio waves travel at light speed, the one-way light time grows as Voyager recedes. At its current distance (tens of billions of km), the delay is 22+ hours and steadily increasing.

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