The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline
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It's not in an orbit. Well, it technically is, but it moved far enough away that that orbit no longer intersects with the solar system's SOI. That was the whole point of the voyager probes, to go out into deep space. That's why we sent them out with our mix tapes
You're saying the same thing by a different route. It's orbit through the galaxy eventually comes back around to us.
Incidently, this is also why we can't just send nuclear waste on a solar escape trajectory. It eventually comes back.
It won't have started getting closer again before the Milky Way collides with the Adromeda galaxy in 5 Billion years, so it and anything we send on a similar path isn't coming back.