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Where is Voyager 1?
After encounters with
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune, the probe
continued travelling on a
trajectory away from the
centre of the solar system
and is now reaching space
that no probe from earth
has explored before.
Voyager 1 continues to
send scientific data to
Earth and has contributed
a great deal to our
understanding of the
origins of our solar system
so far. Its current distance
from earth depends on the
earth's position in relation
to the sun but the NASA
website offers a counter
for the exact distance:
Voyager NASA
In The Year 40000
Its next close encounter
will be with the star
AC+793888, which it will
meet at a
distance of 1.7 light years
in about 38,000 years.
The Current Distance Of Voyager 1
Spacecraft Voyager 1
The unmanned space probe Voyager 1 has been
travelling through our solar system for the past
37 years and is now right at
the edge of it, after crossing the so-called
heliopause and entering interstellar space at a
speed of 17 km/s. Sunlight takes about 17 hours
to reach the probe by now.
The Voyager programme was launched in the
1970s with the primary aim to explore the outer
planets of our solar system.
Every day, Voyager 1 moves further away from
Earth by 1,468,800 km, or almost 5 light seconds.
This is almost four times the distance between
Earth and Moon.
At this speed, the probe could travel around the
globe once in 40 minutes.
However, its batteries will run out of power
already in about 2025, so unfortunately
Voyager 1 will not send any scientific data from
its journey any more. Unless it crashes
into any object in space, it will continue to travel
deeper into space and remain the man-made
object at the furthest distance from Earth ever.
In case Voyager 1 encounters alien
life, it carries a golden record with information
about Earth and humanity.
