The delay has grown throughout the missionNASA’s live Voyager position page says Voyager 1 will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth in November 2026. These instruments do not send back a cinematic view of interstellar space. Interstellar space does not mean beyond all solar influenceNASA concluded that Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in August 2012. In that specific and scientifically useful sense, Voyager is operating in interstellar space. More than 23 hours after Voyager transmits, a faint radio signal reaches Earth carrying a tiny stream of data from beyond the Sun’s plasma bubble.