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.
The distance of Voyager 1 from Earth is currently 23,946,206,390 kilometers, equivalent to 160.070503 Astronomical Units. Light takes 22 hours, 11 minutes and 15.9467 seconds to travel from Voyager 1 and arrive to us. The following chart shows the distance of Voyager 1 from Earth as a function of time.
In 1998, Voyager 1 became the craft that had traveled the farthest from the Sun — a distance of 69 AU. That is the equivalent of 1.03159504 x 10^10 kilometers (6.41 x 10^9 miles). This is the same distance as traveling to the moon almost 27,000 times.
As of 2023, the Voyagers are still in operation past the outer boundary of the heliosphere in interstellar space. They collect and transmit useful data to Earth.
Voyager 1 is currently in the constellation of Ophiucus.
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.
Before they can truly leave, the Voyagers will have to travel through the Oort Cloud, a vast, dark sphere of icy objects surrounding the solar system, for another 20,000 years. Slowly, Voyager 2's systems are being shut down to eke out the power as long as possible. But sometime in the 2030s there will be none left.
They are both headed outward, never to return to Earth. So, can they get closer? The answer is that for a few months each year, Earth in its orbit moves toward the spacecraft faster than they're moving away. Earth's motion around the sun is faster than the motion of the Voyager spacecraft.
The reason for this is because space is so big and so empty when it comes to macroscopic objects such as planets and asteroids. Outer space is crammed full with microscopic particles and fields, but when it comes to an object big enough to crash into, they are very rare.
Because space isn't curved they will never meet or drift away from each other. A flat universe could be infinite: imagine a 2D piece of paper that stretches out forever. But it could also be finite: imagine taking a piece of paper, making a cylinder and joining the ends to make a torus (doughnut) shape.
Both Voyagers are expected to last another five years or so until their batteries die out. Both are powered by electricity generated by the heat of radioactive plutonium.
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Voyager was designed to operate at -35 °C. As the RTG output drops, heaters have been switched off. The spectrometer currently runs below -79 °C.
Voyager 1 is travelling at approximately 17km/s, and gradually slowing down as it exits the solar system's gravity well.
(Voyager 1 is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG. RTGs convert to electricity the heat generated by the radioactive decay of plutonium-238.)
One estimated timescale as to the likelihood of the Pioneer or Voyager spacecraft colliding with a star (or stellar remnant) is 1020 (100 quintillion) years. They are very unlikely, however, to gain enough velocity to escape the Milky Way galaxy (or its future merger with the Andromeda galaxy) into intergalactic space.
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Because we're still in communication with Voyager 1, we know the antenna is still pointing toward us, regardless of the strange nature of the telemetry data readings.
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.
No other mission ever launched is slated to overtake Voyager 1, which is currently both the farthest and fastest-moving human-created spacecraft. A 2098 encounter with Jupiter will cause now-defunct Ulysses to escape.
NASA is keeping Voyager 2 going until at least 2026 by tapping into backup power Engineers have bought the spacecraft's interstellar mission more time by using backup power from a safety mechanism. It means NASA no longer has to shut down one of its five scientific instruments.
While mission operators haven't been able to command Voyager 2 since DSS43 went offline, the three 34-meter-wide (111-foot-wide) radio antennas at the Canberra facility can be used together to capture the signals that Voyager 2 sends to Earth.
A tiny speck of a spacecraft cast into the endless sea of outer space, each Voyager craft was designed to drift forever with no set point of arrival. Likewise, the Golden Record was designed to be playable for up to a billion years, despite the long odds that anyone or anything would ever discover and “listen” to it.