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Old 01-05-2022, 10:28 PM   #52
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Just sitting at home on winter break and I did the math for fun. 13.3 hours to 1 million kilometers away from earth at current speed, though I think it's slowing down a little, so it might take just a little longer than that.
Yeah, at one point I think it was going over 2 km/second.

I was kind of curious, but is the timing of all the events preprogrammed to take place, or does someone from NASA have to send a signal? I was also wondering what the ETA is for the first bit of data to be transmitted back to Earth and images generated for the public to see.
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