“Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally.”

  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It won’t necessarily come back. Till the orbits of Voyager and the Solar system intersect, we would’ve merged with Andromeda, which would completely change all orbits in unpredictable ways. So no, you cannot say with confidence that Voyager will return back to the Solar system before the Sun dies purely using orbital mechanics.