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?

[ianmillerphotography]

It will drift on for infinity until destroyed by cosmic forces

[wendellcoleman]

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

[TheTir]

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

[grantparke]

it takes 22.5 hours to send a message to voyager!

[timothy]

According to Star Trek, it's V ger.

[grall]

I always imagined that we would one day "catch up" to our probes and put them into a museum. (Unless we destroy ourselves, of course...)

[mcatify]

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

[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?

[huwwill]

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

[kevanhubbard]

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.

[robrussell]

I think they will wander until getting caught by a star's gravitational pull, and ultimately getting sucked into that star. This could take many billions of years.

[hamptonchiu]

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

[Demondaze]

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.

[BjManberries]

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

[timecenturycyclistvespada]

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

[steveothehulk]

what sort of data can it still send back?

[timecenturycyclistvespada]

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

[joesmith]

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.

[abramschwarz]

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

[Fogon]

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