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It's definitely not 140m miles away after just a year.
Actually, it is! Space motion isn't straightforward. Here's another article that has a diagram indicating the relative positions.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-optical-comms-demo-transmits-data-over-140-million-miles
Oh wow thanks! I did not have the perspective for the distance. I figured that was Voyager 1 kind of numbers.
Voyager 1 is in the neighborhood of 15b miles from earth!
Hot damn