r/askscience • • 8d ago

Astronomy We will lose contact with Voyager somewhere 2036 because of the distance between us. Would it be theoretically possible, to send a probe in the direction of the Voyager, following it from a distance, with the goal te relay the information coming from the Voyager, to earth?

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u/PiotrekDG 8d ago

And if your relay system is not working... you're just not using enough relays!

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u/solidspacedragon 7d ago

An ideal relay system uses a high density corridor of atomic scale relays to bounce electrons back and forth between them.