> There is 0 chance anything will catch up to it in the next 50 years, and probably for several hundred more years after that, if ever. That is a bit pessimist

> There is 0 chance anything will catch up to it in the next 50 years, and probably for several hundred more years after that, if ever. That is a bit pessimistic. There is this paper [1] by JPL and Nasa folks discussing the possibilites of sun-diving solar small satelites. They think that speeds of around 7 AU/year are possible. Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at 3.6 AU/year. With those speeds catching up to Voyager 1 withing 50 year would be doable. Realistically since we are not quite ready to launch it just yet it is more likely we would miss that 50 year window but I feel better about our odds in the window beyond 50 but within “several hundred years”. 1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14917 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14917