{"id":64575,"date":"2026-04-18T23:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=64575"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:26:06","slug":"imagining-the-voyager-1-probes-journey-through-space-when-humanity-no-longer-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/18\/imagining-the-voyager-1-probes-journey-through-space-when-humanity-no-longer-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining the Voyager 1 probe's journey through space when humanity no longer exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/14\/voyager-1-the-farthest-traveling-human-made-object-and-spains-role-in-its-long-journey\/\">A few months ago I talked here about the Voyager 1 space probe<\/a>, the most distant of all objects made by humans.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/14\/voyager-1-the-farthest-traveling-human-made-object-and-spains-role-in-its-long-journey\/\">Voyager 1, the farthest-traveling human-made object, and Spain's role in its long journey<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/11\/21\/the-history-of-the-five-nasa-spacecrafts-that-travel-beyond-the-solar-system\/\">The history of the five NASA spacecrafts that travel beyond the Solar System<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Launched on September 5, 1977, by NASA, <strong>Voyager 1 became the farthest-traveling human-made object on February 17, 1998.<\/strong> Despite the enormous distance separating us from this probe with its now very outdated technology, <strong>NASA has managed to maintain contact with Voyager 1 through its Deep Space Network<\/strong> via its three mission tracking complexes: Goldstone (California, USA), Canberra (Australia), and Robledo de Chavela (Madrid, Spain). <strong>Currently, the probe is about a light-day away from us.<\/strong> Its already faint signal will likely disappear into the vastness of space in the coming years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55041715421_a2041a12f8_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55041715421_2f68632f46_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">An artist's rendering of the Voyager 1 probe (Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdscc.nasa.gov\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/el-voyager-1-de-la-nasa-reanuda-el-envio-de-actualizaciones-de-ingenieria-a-la-tierra\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong>It is very likely that Voyager 1<\/strong>, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/11\/21\/la-historia-de-las-cinco-naves-de-la-nasa-que-viajan-hacia-mas-alla-del-sistema-solar\/\">four other space probes sent into space by NASA<\/a> (Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and New Horizons), <strong>will outlive humanity itself<\/strong>, if nothing interferes with its long flight. These probes will then become tangible proof of our existence. A few days ago, the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NullSpaceYT\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NullSpace<\/a> <strong>published a fabulous video imagining what Voyager 1's journey might be like when we are no longer here<\/strong>, at a distance difficult to conceive and seeing things that humanity will possibly never be able to contemplate:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VOYAGER 1: The Story of the Next 10 Trillion Years | 4K\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hh7wfElw4g0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hh7wfElw4g0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NullSpace<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I talked here about the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant of all objects made by humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16878],"tags":[1304,15712],"class_list":["post-64575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-space","tag-nasa","tag-voyager-1"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:04:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}