How far away is Voyager 1 now?

How far away is Voyager 1 now?

The distance of Voyager 1 from Earth is currently 23,795,079,921 kilometers, equivalent to 159.060285 Astronomical Units.

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 now in 2022?

Voyager 1 is currently in the constellation of Ophiucus.

When did Voyager 1 start?

From the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Voyager 2 was launched first, on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1 was launched on a faster, shorter trajectory on September 5, 1977.

Can Voyager still take pictures?

After Voyager 1 took its last image (the “Solar System Family Portrait” in 1990), the cameras were turned off to save power and memory for the instruments expected to detect the new charged particle environment of interstellar space. Mission managers removed the software from both spacecraft that controls the camera.

How far can Voyager 1 go before we lose contact?

For example, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is a little over 2×10^(10) km, or 130 astronomical units, from the Earth and we still receive signals from it. Eventually we will lose contact with Voyager 1 when its instruments run out of energy to send signals to Earth.

How long will Voyager 1 battery last?

Voyager 1’s extended mission is expected to continue until about 2025, when its radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) will no longer supply enough electric power to operate its scientific instruments.

Can we get Voyager 1 back?

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 17.027 km/s relative to the sun) and have very little ability to change speed now.

How far will Voyager 1 be in 2025?

The Voyagers have enough electrical power and thruster fuel to keep its current suite of science instruments on until at least 2025. By that time, Voyager 1 will be about 13.8 billion miles (22.1 billion kilometers) from the Sun and Voyager 2 will be 11.4 billion miles (18.4 billion kilometers) away.

Is Voyager 1 past Pluto?

Both probes are now farther away from Earth than Pluto — Voyager 1 is an estimated 14.5 billion miles away from our planet.

What was the last picture Voyager 1 took?

Earth was one of the last things Voyager 1 saw. The probe took the Pale Blue Dot photo at 0448 GMT on Feb. 14, 1990, just 34 minutes before its cameras were shut off forever. (The very last photos Voyager 1 took, however, were of the sun, Hansen said.)

How far away is Voyager 1 in light hours?

Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles (23.3bn km) from Earth and it takes 20 light hours and 33 minutes to travel that distance, meaning it takes two days to send a message to the spacecraft and get a response.

Has Voyager 1 ran out of fuel?

Voyager 1’s Titan-Centaur rocket came within 3.5 seconds of running out of fuel when it carried the spacecraft aloft on Sept. 5, 1977, mission officials said today during a celebration of the launch’s 35th anniversary at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.

Does Voyager 1 still have fuel?

Voyager 1 has enough hydrazine to keep going until 2040, while Voyager 2’s juice can keep it hurtling along until 2034.

Has Voyager 1 found anything?

Four and a half decades after launch and over 14 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 1 still makes new discoveries.

Where is Voyager 1 right now?

Today, Voyager 1 is more than 23 billion km away from Earth.

Where is Voyager 1 headed now?

In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within 1.6 light-years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis which is heading toward the constellation Ophiuchus.

Is it possible Voyager 1 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 17.027 km/s relative to the sun) and have very little ability to change speed now.