Travelled Kilometers Since
Accessing The Site:
Distance From The Sun
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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.
