How long can voyager 1 last?

How can you still receive information from Voyager after it's gone so much further than expected?—from Reddit user cyberine. Mostly because technology on the ground has improved tremendously over the last decades, so it's possible to catch tiny radio signals from a very far distance. read more

Barring any impacts with space rocks or other events like that, the records will last and be playable pretty much forever. The two space craft will not make a near approach to any stars in the foreseeable future--V1 will get about 1.4ly from another star in about 40,000 years. read more