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How do we receive anything at all from Voyager? Isn't our solar system hundreds of thousands of miles away from where it was when we launched Voyager? Does Voyager move relative to the movement of our solar system? Like, is it constantly slipping sideways in addition to moving away from us because of our movement when we launched it?
Whne you jump on a train do you 'slip' backwards, because the train moved under you? No, you don't. Why? Because you have inertia. When you jump you don't magically come to a halt, you continue moving at the same speed as the train, so you don't move realtive to it. It's the same with Voyager. It didn't come to a halt when we launched it, it moves at the same speed as our solar system and thus doesn't 'slip away'.
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By slip sideways, I actually meant "move with us, in the direction the solar system is moving". Relativity, I guess. So I was asking if it does what you explained it does. Thank you.