A voyager forever voyaging

Classical Mechanics Level 2

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently about 18.5 billion km from the Earth. How long does it take in seconds for a radio signal to get from Voyager 1 to Earth?

Details and assumptions

The speed of light is \(3 \times 10^8~\mbox{m/s}\).

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