What is the distance between Voyager 1 and Earth?

What is the distance between Voyager 1 and Earth?

“Voyager 1 has reached a distance of 23.381 billion km (14.528 billion mi; 156.29 AU) from Earth and 23.483 billion km (14.592 billion mi; 156.97 AU) from the Sun.”

Where is Voyager 1 now km?

“The distance of Voyager 1 from Earth is currently 23,834,685,295 kilometers, equivalent to 159.325030 Astronomical Units.”

How far is Voyager 1 from the sun in KM?

“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.”

How long does it take Voyager 1 to reach Earth?

“Voyager 1 data takes about 19 hours to reach Earth, and signals from Voyager 2 about 16 hours. (For comparison, it takes the rovers on Mars 20 minutes on average to call home.)”

How long can Voyager 1 last?

“How long can Voyager 1 and 2 continue to function? Voyager 1 is expected to keep its current suite of science instruments on through 2021. Voyager 2 is expected to keep its current suite of science instruments on through 2020. The radioisotope thermoelectric generator on each spacecraft puts out 4 watts less each year.”

How far can Voyager 1 go before we lose contact?

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Will Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?

“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 within the confines of the solar system until it emerges from the Oort cloud in another 14,000 to 28,000 years.”

Is Voyager 1 lost in space?

“Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, identical in every detail, were launched within 15 days of each other in the summer of 1977. After nearly 45 years in space, they are still functioning, sending data back to Earth every day from beyond the solar system’s most distant known planets.”

How fast is Voyager 1 per second?

“Voyager 1 is currently zipping through space at around 38,000 mph (17 kilometers per second), according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.”

How fast is Voyager 1 per hour?

“Traveling at speeds of over 35,000 miles per hour, it will take the Voyagers nearly 40,000 years, and they will have traveled a distance of about two light years to reach this rather indistinct boundary. But there is a more definitive and unambiguous frontier, which the Voyagers will approach and pass through.”

Will Voyager 1 hit a star?

“”While neither Voyager is likely to get particularly close to any star before the galaxies collide, the craft are likely to at least pass through the outskirts of some [star] system,” Oberg said.”

Does Voyager 1 travel at the speed of light?

“On NASA’s tracking page for the mission, each spacecraft’s odometer ticks up by 10 miles (16 kilometers) or more twice a second, a constant churn that makes the passage of time suddenly excruciating. But the Voyagers are traveling at nowhere near the speed of light (186,000 mps, or 300,000 km/s), as their messages do.”

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. (Though the spacecraft are identical, Voyager 2 has had to expend more hydrazine visiting Uranus and Neptune.) The real limiting factor is the other fuel, plutonium-238 dioxide.”

How strong is Voyager 1 signal?

“As you said, the radio strength of Voyager 1 is about 23 watts. This signal is directed toward Earth, but since Voyager 1 is about 15 billion kilometers from Earth, by the time Voyager 1’s signal reaches us its power is less than an attowatt, or a billionth of a billionth of a watt.”

How far is Voyager 1 in light hours?

“Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles (23.3 billion kilometers) from Earth, and it takes light 20 hours and 33 minutes to travel that difference.”

Will Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?

“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 within the confines of the solar system until it emerges from the Oort cloud in another 14,000 to 28,000 years.”

How long will it take Voyager 1 to travel a light year?

“A light-year is 9.5 trillion kilometers. By division, that means it’s going to take Voyager 17,720 years to travel ONE light year.”

Will Voyager 1 hit a star?

“”While neither Voyager is likely to get particularly close to any star before the galaxies collide, the craft are likely to at least pass through the outskirts of some [star] system,” Oberg said.”

How far is Voyager 1 from Earth in light years?

“8760 hours in a year and Voyager 1 is 19.4 hours away. so its 1/451.5 of a LY away.”