How Far Can Voyager 1 Travel?

22 billion kilometers in over 40 years, that's the distance Voyager 1 has traveled since its launch in the late 1970s! The question is, how far can Voyager 1 travel? Will this probe one day reach a distant star system as humanity's first ambassador and, if so, will we possibly get an answer from there? The Voyager probes are regarded as milestones in space exploration and they have provided us with never-before-seen images and impressions of the outer planets. That was supposed to be the end of it, but their mission has continued to this day. Can Voyager 1 really fly forever and what will it see on this long journey?

[@wendellcoleman1137]

It'll wind up as an exhibit in some far-off alien Air & Space Museum, just like we display arrowheads and clay pots!

[@ianmillerphotography]

It will drift on for infinity until destroyed by cosmic forces

[@creman12]

So not infinity

[@filthyanimal874]

@@creman12😂

[@timothy8426]

According to Star Trek, it's V ger.

[@jordanbrancato7026]

i wonder if voy 2 is the enemy of V ?

[@TheTir1962]

Tell unknown species exactly where we are, what could ever go wrong with that??

[@kenai63]

we gotta explore somehow. But that golden disk with Earths location and literally everything about us was kinda silly, we coulda left that stuff out.

[@matanc3489]

if an unkown species has the technology to find Voyager 1, it surely has the ability to track radio signals coming from our planet and find where earth is located based on the radio signals. Hence, it can find earth even without finding the probe.

[@TheTir1962]

@@matanc3489 radio at distances would be so wide they would know a general direction. I hat I am referring to is basically telling space your exact address and showing them you are not technically advanced. Space program ASSUMES all species are peaceful. Be like parking a model T out front of Ferrari then bragging about your automobile technology skills.

[@kenai63]

@@matanc3489 Yes but you never know how things could workout. There are different levels of technology they aren't all extremely advanced yet some are on our level, were better than some too, so its complex. Even Steven Hawking suggested the golden disk was silly

[@lukeblanchard4861]

Depending if humanity survives into the distant future if any life forms find it they'll have a shock with how much advanced we have become since sending the voyager out there! Just look how much we've advanced in technology since sending the voyager to space... I'm just hoping future generations aren't all p***ys and would actually fight for earth if it actually came to it

[@NWAWskeptic]

4:10 “although the particle density dropped dramatically, as expected there were still more particles than expected”. What? Did Carmine Lupertazzi Jr write the script?

[@123mcatify]

I have a feeling if they were made today, they wouldn't last 2 years in space.

[@MotorsportCreative]

Straight ordered from Temu 😂

[@s0rry00]

Nah ion agree with that. Think something like satellites or highly expensive/specialized products will always have people working on them who want to be there, and who want to build the best possible version. Not exactly a high volume industry, thus not many minimum or slave wage workers who usually could give less of a shit about the quality of the product…

[@ZachRULES96]

What makes you think that?

[@Jabatu1]

Especially if it was made by Boeing

[@nathaliefanfan7034]

That means the younger the worst the brain get

[@huwwill61]

I was tending turkeys on Neptune when Voyager 1 swung by.

[@abramschwarz3142]

An even more important inquiry.. will we ever advance enough to be able to catch up to it and return it to earth?

[@jerry5630]

Thanks for such like

[@BjManberries]

We are so in the middle of nowhere. Earth will be gone before it reaches another species.

[@jeffreygibson703]

Everything is in the middle of nowhere.

[@BjManberries]

@jeffreygibson703 Yep! Space is kinda big. Main reason I don't think we've been "visited". ☮️

[@kevanhubbard9673]

Probably doesn't have the speed to escape the galaxy but it along with the other Voyager , Pioneer 10 and 11 and New Horizons could end up anywhere roughly along their last known routes but gravity from stars might alter their courses.Although it's not really worth worrying about as they probably won't pass anything for hundreds of thousands of years.

[@sheluvlg5091]

That’s crazy bro but very true

[@simjam1980]

To put it into perspective, Voyager1 has been travelling at 60 000kmh (40000 mph) for almost 50 years, and it's travelled the same distance light travels in 1 day. Multiply that by 365 and you have 1 light year. The Milky Way is 100 000 light years across. That means it would take roughly 1.8 billion years to leave our local galaxy.

[@democracy480]

@@simjam1980No intelligent life will ever find us.Nothing can travel faster than light.

[@simjam1980]

@@democracy480 unless they discover how to use wormholes or some other instant teleporting technology. Quantum physics shows that you can manipulate one photon and its twin will react instantly, no matter how far away it is... so that transcends the speed of light.

[@Starburst_Candy]

As far as we currently know! ​@@democracy480

[@hardytall8386]

Thanks to the USA

[@joesmith6806]

I think in a thousand years or so we will have developed technology so that humanity will surpass the Voyager probes. Eventually we will follow the probes with whatever space craft/probes we have at that time and immortalize them as the start of human space exploration.

[@jamessutcliffe7984]

Yes. If we can travel at 10% of C, we'd catch up with it in about 5 days.

[@Musketeersbythree]

What a magic

[@steveothehulk]

what sort of data can it still send back?

[@Fogon59]

It will run out petrol next Tuesday at about tea-time.

[@hamptonchiu2192]

400 years later, our teenagers will complain their school trip is to visit voyager 1, boring

[@7timecenturycyclistvespada982]

Trying to comprehend how we know about solar winds, and where the heck they come from gives me a headache..

[@chandrachurniyogi8394]

now that NASA has been able to establish communication with Voyager One . . . they could reassign the spacecraft on a new interstellar mission, sending Voyager One to Proxima Centauri . . . as it is Voyager One is more than 50 Bn miles from earth, might as well send it to Proxima Centauri . . .

[@hwmacklin]

How are they going to "steer" around rocks and meteorites without power?

[@steveothehulk]

can voyager 1 still send back photos?

[@althunder4269]

The camera was turned off to save electricity. It's so far away now that there is nothing to photograph anyways.

[@grantparke5452]

Ahhhhh it takes 22.5 hours to send a message to voyager!

[@user-cs2en4wl4f]

Some alien with steal this and end up with free satellite t.v. stations.

[@brumbywal8432]

Tell me, you say solar winds, is that just like stormy days on Earth ? , if so then there must be an atmosphere?.

[@grahamlane1313]

They could go on for a long time unless they are hit by comet or asteriod or fall into a undiscovered blackhole .i can remember them been launched in 1970 s

[@Jokers_Yugioh666]

it's future humans..

[@7timecenturycyclistvespada982]

If the aliens actually intercept the Voyagers probes, they will laugh at us!

[@jeffreygibson703]

Play nice. Don’t be an asshole.

[@7timecenturycyclistvespada982]

If voyager 1 travels out of the Galaxy, it might find the planet my ex wife came from..

[@democracy480]

In over a billion years Yes.If it were traveling at the speed of light-Oniy take 100,000 years to get out of Milky Way

[@truckerrob7862]

Yours N mine too cuz I swear she isn't from earth

[@tashacapgoddessmelanin9760]

😂😂😂

[@kayasper6081]

My ex came from hell, that might be not too far away.

[@althunder4269]

@@democracy480 Some other guy said: Voyager1 has been travelling at 60 000kmh (40000 mph) for almost 50 years, and it's travelled the same distance light travels in 1 day. Multiply that by 365 and you have 1 light year. The Milky Way is 100 000 light years across. That means it would take roughly 1.8 billion years to leave our local galaxy.

[@Kennybooy9]

Oh reeeete. And let’s sound like buck rogers. Fecked

[@simonf8902]

As long as it is not acted upon by an unbalanced force.

[@jamessutcliffe7984]

Yes. Well established, but highly unlikely. Space is extraordinarily empty

[@jordanbrancato7026]

Techically as long as nothing stops/ gets in its way. it can travel forever until it turns into nothingness. it might be safe to say that it will witness the death of the universe.

[@fgm1197]

What i don't understand i mean we are talking about NASA here. If you have an active mission to supervise and control, how can it be that you don't have qualified employees who are familiar with this old technology...

[@simjam1980]

The problem is, the computer on the voyager is 64kb... that's about the same as a singing birthday card.

[@Demondaze69]

Skip to 3:26 to get past the history lesson. Most of us who occasionally click on these videos already know about who, what, when, where, and why. Just cut out all the BS and get to the topic of what the video is advertised as.

[@althunder4269]

Or skip to 9:56 to find out how far it could travel.

[@bobbybob3865]

Voyager 1 can travel as far as its gas tank will allow.

[@officialkstylz]

So interesting but in the 60s they can make a probe that can withstand the climate of interstellar space and with a battery that’s lasted over 60 years but my iPhone has to be charged once a day and stops working if in direct sunlight or temps of 30 degrees 😂

[@SupurrrCat]

Your phone isn't powered by Plutonium, is it?

[@gravanon1577]

@@SupurrrCat It should be. Plutonium's been available at every corner drug store since 1985.

[@althunder4269]

@@SupurrrCat Wasn't the Delorean time machine plutonium powered too?

[@jameseldridge4185]

To the end of the universe.

[@jamessutcliffe7984]

Impossible. The universe is expanding at a far greater speed that voyager is travelling.

[@t0mmycheese]

As real as the Easter bunny.

[@steveothehulk]

what if it hits a tiny planety and wipes out all life there? anyone think about that for a mo? it would start an intergalactic war cos we shot 1st

[@dennisabrams6484]

It's v ger

[@stephenmorley3285]

Perhaps if either of the Voyagers make contact with another species at least they will have knowledge of our civilization which I believe will be long extinct . What I find amazing is that humanity has yet to discover absolute proof of another source of life although we have many credible examples of encounters with aliens.

[@sirrichardrichard5655]

To meet the creator

[@matt15saints]

How are both of those statements true at the same time? If we have creditable encounters with aliens then wouldn’t that be proof?

[@tylercouture216]

There have been multiple occurrences with proof of other life

[@matt15saints]

@@tylercouture216 such as?

[@tylercouture216]

@@matt15saints inexplicable phobomemons. Artifacts. Architectural structures. Area 51. And so on

[@flynn4838]

Ummm..at 10 minutes 13 seconds......its pronounced with a soft G.Not a hard G Lol! As it is in 'Voyager'

[@davidbrewster7701]

And You think the boats are a problem !!

[@jamessutcliffe7984]

If we can travel at 10% of C, we could catch up to voyager one in about 90 minutes.

[@schusterlehrling]

But we can't, and it will take hundreds of years until we manage.

[@peterviragphoto]

Incorrect. It would take almost a full day at the speed of light, so traveling at 10%, multiply it by ten

[@garethwigglesworth8187]

#1 Britain

[@peterharris38]

You mean Uranus 😂

[@7timecenturycyclistvespada982]

Hello hello hello I need to get a life… I miss my old friends the red tree salamander 🦎 from Antarctica and my crazy little furry friends the South African blue legged maple tree crickets from Bulgaria..☹️

[@ChargersCity]

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever😊

[@jamessutcliffe7984]

Oh shut up. This is a science page.

[@David-yy7lb]

Why do you half to use kilometers and meters instead of miles and feet

[@Ledman301]

I’m an American. What’s a kilometer?

[@abdulabbas1562]

just like mph

[@danielskomp9072]

Sad! Americans tried to join the sane world, and use the vastly better, easier, simpler Metric system! However, Americans were UNABLE to learn the simple Metric system! And remain the ONLY nation using the ignorant Feet, inches, miles, pounds, ounces, ect!

[@hpabsjs]

1000 meter

[@Crazy-Clown-In-Town]

It's a meter with a kilo.

[@k9m42]

Just remember it was Americans who launched Voyager.

[@waker1981]

Miles please , not in km We live USA and miles gives us a good idea about the distance not km

[@jamessutcliffe7984]

All scientists use metric.

[@flynn4838]

1.6 km = 1 mile. Now you can find out. The U.S is one of the few countries left that doesn't use Metric.

[@heekomogwin]

Surprised you don’t hear the climate activists complaining about the sun leaving exhaust trails 🙄

[@GsGs-qp8ml]

کائنات کی تخلیق معلومات بشارت...... اس کائنات کی خوبصورتی کے معلومات کس کے پاس ہے کائنات سے خوبصورت چیز دنیا میں اس سے زیادہ بھی کائ چیز نہیں ہے اس کائنات کی تخلیق معلومات خوبصورتی سب سے زیادہ خوبصورت دنیا ہے...... بسم اللہ ابراہیم ابراہیمی مشال کائنات

[@brians9508]

one of the most irritating AI voice narrations ever. grating

[@larryray4811]

Who Cares?

[@DrGreenThumbNZL]

People with intelligence unlike you Larry you boomer

[@MotorsportCreative]

I do, Dinosaur 😂

[@lewisedge4534]

Literally everyone that clicked on this video, LARRY

[@jamessutcliffe7984]

Me

[@GreenLightMe]

I don’t understand how the plutonium will stop producing electricity in 5 more years

[@lightyagami3492]

Basically there won't be enough plutonium left for the voyager probes to send a signal back to earth. The probes will have some power far longer than we will be able to contact them

[@Nathan-kf7kt]

Bs