The light-day as a distance

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2. The distance light travels in twenty-four hours: about 25.9 billion kilometres, or 173.1 astronomical units. It is an unusual unit to reach for, because nothing human-made had ever been that far away — the light-second is the useful unit for the Moon, the light-minute for the inner planets, and the light-hour covers the whole planetary system with room to spare. NASA calculated that Voyager 1 will be exactly one light-day from Earth at 2:16:07 a.m. Pacific time on 18 November 2026, at 16,094,799,096 miles or 25,902,068,356 kilometres. What the unit measures in practice is conversation: at one light-day, a command sent to the spacecraft takes a full day to arrive and the acknowledgement takes another full day to come back, so the shortest possible exchange with Voyager 1 lasts two days. Not a place.
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4. The light-day as a distance
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6. NASA Deep Space Network
7. Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth
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9. NASA has calculated that Voyager 1 will be one light-day from Earth at 2:16:07 a.m. PST on 18 November 2026, at 16,094,799,096 miles / 25,902,068,356 km / 173.14 AU, the first human-made object to reach that distance. V55 verification basis: every outlet attributes the figure to a NASA calculation, but no NASA statement or ephemeris was retrieved; accounts differ on whether the date is given as 17 or 18 November depending on time zone.