How far has Voyager 1 traveled in miles?

roughly 13.2 billion miles
That’s roughly 13.2 billion miles, or 21.2 billion kilometers. You can look at its current distance on this NASA website. Since flying past the solar system’s boundary into interstellar space, Voyager 1 sent back valuable information about conditions in this zone of the universe.

How long would it take in years for the Voyager to travel from Earth to Proxima Centauri?

73,000 years
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is on an interstellar mission. It is traveling away from the Sun at a rate of 17.3 km/s. If Voyager were to travel to Proxima Centauri, at this rate, it would take over 73,000 years to arrive.

How long would it take to catch up to Voyager?

This would take about 200 years, and with some extremely careful nudges, we could make sure it falls in an Earth-crossing orbit. Two centuries later, Voyager would reach Earth and, with no way to slow down, burn up in our atmosphere, because we didn’t think to send out an aerobraking shell with the rescue craft.

How far has Voyager 1 and 2 traveled?

JUPITER Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter on March 5, 1979, and Voyager 2 followed with its closest approach occurring on July 9, 1979. The first spacecraft flew within 277,400 kilometers (172,368 miles) of the planet’s cloud tops, and Voyager 2 came within 650,180 kilometers (404,003 miles).

What is the farthest man has traveled into space?

The record for the farthest distance that humans have traveled goes to the all-American crew of famous Apollo 13 who were 400,171 kilometers (248,655 miles) away from Earth on April 14, 1970. This record has stood untouched for over 50 years!

How long will it take for Voyager 1 to reach Alpha Centauri?

It will take 20,000 years for our earliest probes to reach Alpha Centauri. Some of the earliest explorations of the universe beyond our solar system were made by four probes launched by NASA in the 1970s — Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2.

Will Voyager 1 be overtaken?

New Horizons will never overtake Voyager 1. Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at 17 kilometers per second. When New Horizons reaches that same distance 32 years from now, propelled by a single planetary swingby, it will be moving about 13 kilometers per second.

How long will Voyager 1 and 2 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.

How far away is Voyager 1 from Earth?

As of 21:00 Universal Time on September 4, 2012, Voyager 1 was 18.21 billion kilometers (11.31 billion miles) from home, or 121 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Light takes 33 hours and 44 minutes to travel the distance from the Sun to Voyager 1 and back. The images above were taken at a time when Voyager 1 was much closer to home.

What is the velocity of Voyager 1 and 2?

But, as they get farther away, that pull from the Sun gets a little weaker and weaker, reducing the deceleration experienced by the Voyagers. Today, Voyager 2 is traveling at about 15.4 km/s and Voyager 1 is traveling at about 17 km/s. Here’s a diagram showing the velocity change of Voyager 2, since launch.

Why is the one-way light time between Earth and Voyager decreasing?

Note: Because Earth moves around the Sun faster than Voyager 1 or Voyager 2 is traveling from Earth, the one-way light time between Earth and each spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year. This meter depicts the dramatic changes in readings by Voyager’s cosmic ray instrument.

How many pictures did Voyager 1 take of the Sun?

On Feb. 14, 1990, Voyager 1’s cameras were pointed backward and captured about 60 images of the Sun and planets — the first “portrait” of our solar system as seen from the outside. The images were taken when the spacecraft was about 40 AU from the Sun (3.7 billion miles or 6 billion kilometers).