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April 23, 2014	Peer review	Reviewed
May 23, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
April 14, 2024	Peer review	Reviewed
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Mission status NASA page def dead and probably inaccurate on Wayback machine?

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Looks like it's time to update the sources for tracking Voyager's distance to this page, no? https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/#V1-current-position The Mission Status page is only accessible on Wayback now (web.archive.org/web/20180101025244/https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/) and the numbers there don't seem to match the current NASA page (completely the wrong velocity, for example). Trellbailey (talk) 10:57, 29 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Light day unit conversion

Latest comment: 5 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I would like to be able to edit the mention of light day near the start into not only the link that it is at the moment, but also a unit conversion that shows how many astronomical units and kilometres that means (yes I am the high functioning autism-induced SI prefix addict who would really like that to be terametres to be nice and straight forward but I am happy to put up with kilometres and thus not be a nuisance), I am also happy for the edit to be in US English even though as this comment shows I happen to be British and still based in England. However, I cannot seem to create the unit conversion successfully, the initial unit of light day isn't recognised when I preview the change, thus I have not followed through. Could somebody who knows these things better than me please implement the conversion for me please. Many thanks. Avenues2009 (talk) 22:56, 5 August 2026 (UTC)Reply