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New Horizons was launched in 2006, and it will reach the same distance from the Sun as Voyager 1 is _currently_ in about 32 years.
by Denvercoder9 2y ago
New Horizons was launched in 2006, and it will reach the same distance from the Sun as Voyager 1 is _currently_ in about 32 years.
- detourdog 2y agoGood lord willing and the creeks don’t rise.
- AdamJacobMuller 2y agoIt will definitely happen, the only real question is if we're still talking to New Horizon when it passes Voyager 1. In fact I wonder if we'll stop talking to Voyager 1 before or after New Horizon.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoNew Horizons is slower than Voyager 1, and is also decelerating more. New Horizons will never pass the others. Voyager 1 is the fastest probe in an escape trajectory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Far_future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Far_future
- AdamJacobMuller 2y agoFor some reason I thought I had read that Horizons was faster and would eventually eclipse it, odd. Anyway I'm still curious if V1 outlasts New Horizons
- AStonesThrow 2y agoI am sure that your article said that it's newer and the launch event was on the plane of the ecliptic. I read that one too. Anyway, the Wikipedia article says: After 2036, both [Voyager] probes will be out of range of the Deep Space Network.[14] As for New Horizons: [The RTG] will decay too far to power the transmitters in the 2030s. So we could lose contact with three in succession. Or, the DSN could become even deeper!