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optimusprinceps | 11 years ago

What exactly is propelling Voyager through interstellar space?

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chton|11 years ago

The speed it already has. There's practically no friction in space, so any speed it picked up from its engines and gravitational slingshots is kept. Newton's first law.

batbomb|11 years ago

and 30 years of any radiation pressure.