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Question: what decade will we have something go further away than Voyager 1
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2100s
 
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later than that
 
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« on: August 21, 2019, 08:56:05 AM »

The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, to study the outer Solar System.[1] The probes were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Although their original mission was to study only the planetary systems of Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2 continued on to Uranus and Neptune. The Voyagers now explore the outer boundary of the heliosphere in interstellar space; their mission has been extended three times and they continue to transmit useful scientific data. Neither Uranus nor Neptune has been visited by a probe other than Voyager 2.

On 25 August 2012, data from Voyager 1 indicated that it had become the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, traveling "further than anyone, or anything, in history".[2] As of 2013, Voyager 1 was moving with a velocity of 17 kilometers per second (11 mi/s) relative to the Sun.[3]

On 5 November 2018, data from Voyager 2 indicated that it also had entered interstellar space.[4]
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2019, 08:41:34 PM »

The planetary alignments that make a planetary grand tour possible only happen about every 175 years or so, so the next won't be until 2150 or so, and since that is the best way of getting a spacecraft going quickly out of the solar system, I can't see anything overtaking Voyager I before the late 22nd century or later. Even with a higher heliocentric velocity any such probe would still need decades to overtake V'ger 1.
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