How Can NASA's Voyager Probes Be So Fast? Outside Our Solar System!

I explain how the NASA Voyager probes can be so fast!

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Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: Jordan Guidry, John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Nathan, Soren, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
LIVE Production: Jonathan Heuer, Jordan Guidry
Host: Felix Schlang
Production: Stefanie & Felix Schlang
Graphics & Media Processing: Jonathan Heuer, Felix Schlang

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⭐NASA
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[thewb]

In astronomical terms that is a snail’s pace. There was a recently discovered rogue star traveling literally at ONE MILLION MILES PER HOUR compared to Voyager’s 30, 000 miles per hour.

[PanioloBee]

I worked on a project at the Stennis Space Center. While there I asked why Voyager has been working so long. The Project Manager replied “Because we didn’t include a monkey with a screwdriver to mess with it”! Made perfectly sense.

[raytribble]

It was/is fascinating science. I was 17 when they both launched

[theoldhighwaywonderer]

Hey, doing anything in space is amazing 😊

[RogerK]

Sparta High School NJ, Class of 77
SO COOL, still watching.

[Nobilangelo]

'Goodbye, and thanks for every wish....'

[eddieheron]

And yet, it’s still less that a Light Day away, ~ 22-1/4 hours.

[edmartian]

This is how Scott Manley rescues Kerbals from Eloo with two firecrackers and half a tank of juice.

[paulbrunton]

I hope Voyager 1 never bumps into an asteroid, its very lonely out there or is it. 😊

[Justin-utqk]

Could we get numbers per planet that it passed and how much it gained, or how fast it was traveling after passing? Or even how much it gained as it approached

[Ankit_fromEarth]

I don't understand how it's velocity is gained by gravity ? As far I know it can only assist in changing directions.

[plugplagiate]

Voyager 1 is currently traveling at a speed of approximately 38, 026.79 miles per hour (17 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun1. It’s the fastest and farthest human-made object from Earth!

[annikwok]

The spacecraft is going with 0.005648 % the speed of light which in my opinion is damned fast... 😊 For a spacecraft made in the 1970ties

[dewdropin]

I wonder what the gravity would do to a spacecraft when it left the gravity of our solar system, and was captured by the gravity of another solar system. Common sense tells me when the spacecraft is pulled in to the gravity well of another solar system it speed will start to increase more and more as it is sucked into the gravity, well of that solar system.

[spooders]

For modern probes that’s wicked damn slow. New horizons is a newer standard. And with starship they’ll be able to launch heavy third stages to carry probes direct to europa, Titan, triton

[mekile_]

The Astroid that Hit the Ukatan Pennsylvania was moving at approximately 76. 000 thousand miles an hour, Was so large it had its own gravitational pull, pulled gas balls through the atmosphere burning the earth,

[mcyeller]

Earth is moving 107, 000 km/ph. I guess Voyager speed is relative to moving away from the sun. Earth is orbiting the sun.

[aroundonabike]

I was like number 500🤘 What do I win? 😊😆

[edlujan]

I don't understand how this "slingshot" mechanism works. If it got pulled on the way into Jupiter, then it had to be pulled on the way out. Conservation of energy, no?

Let's do some research

[seabeepirate]

I hate this. The Oort Cloud is part of our solar system and it will be another 300 years before voyager makes it that far. Voyager is still 100% in our solar system and will be for very, very a long time.