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Why don’t the speedy Voyager space probes bump into anything?


How is it possible that the Voyager space probes, travelling at 15.4km a second or even faster, manage not to crash into anything on their journeys? Presumably even hitting the slightest space debris at that speed would obliterate them.

Jon Lloyd, London SE23

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