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Plasma data measured by Voyager 2 up through 20 March 2024 (2024/080)

Voyager 2 left our heliosphere and entered the local interstellar medium in 2018 and continues to travel outward at 36,000 miles per hour (which is 3.2 AU per year, or 1 light year per 18,600 years).

As of 20 March 2024, Voyager 2 was approximately 12.673 billion miles from Earth (136.056 Astronomical Units from the Sun).

On the same date, the light travel time from Voyager 2 to Earth was approximately 18 hours, 53 minutes, 56 seconds. Data are returned from the spacecraft at 160 bits per second, using a transmitter with about 25 watts (!) of power.

For more details, see the real time odometer of distance from the Earth and the Sun Where Are the Voyagers




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