Is Voyager 1 still transmitting? According to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Voyager 1 has enough fuel to keep its instruments running until at least 2025. Where is Voyager 1 headed now? In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within...
Which is faster Voyager 1 or 2? Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.6 AU per year. Voyager 2 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.3 AU per year. How fast...
How fast is Voyager 2 in mph? 1989: Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe the planet Neptune. Voyager 2 traveled 12 years at an average velocity of 19 kilometers per second (about 42,000 mph to reach Neptune, which is...
Will Voyager 1 leave the universe? In August 2012, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space. However, if we define our solar system as the Sun and everything that primarily orbits the Sun, Voyager 1 will remain...
How long will it take for Voyager 1 to leave the galaxy? In August 2012, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space. However, if we define our solar system as the Sun and everything that primarily orbits...
Will Voyager 2 ever reach another star? In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will get relatively close to another star in the constellation Camelopardalis, while Voyager 2 will near a star in the constellation of Andromeda on its way to the...
What is the space in interstellar? Bottom line: Interstellar space is the space between the stars in a galaxy. It’s not “empty,” but, overall, it’s as close to an absolute vacuum as you can get. Molecular clouds are places in interstellar...
How many times has Voyager left the solar system? Five robotic spacecraft have sufficient velocity to escape the bounds of our solar system and travel into interstellar space, but only one—NASA’s Voyager 1—has crossed that boundary so far. Voyager 1 transitioned...
When did Voyager 1 pass the Kuiper Belt? Here the answer is more definitive. Without a target list, it’s difficult to see how Voyager could have made a flyby — we knew next to nothing about objects beyond Pluto as Voyager...
Is the Voyager 1 ever coming back to Earth? Nope. They have small amounts of hydrazine fuel left and have no possible way to slow down and head back. They are traveling very fast (Voyager 1 is at 38,088 mph or...