Will Voyager 1 go on forever?

The Voyagers’ journey will continue indefinitely, but we will no longer travel with them. “It’s cooling off, the spacecraft is getting colder all the time and the power is dropping,” Ed Stone, the mission’s project scientist and a physicist at Caltech, said during a news conference held Oct.

How far away is Voyager 2 in light years?

Future of the probe[edit] It is not headed toward any particular star, although in roughly 42,000 years, it will pass light-years from the star Ross 248. And if undisturbed for 296,000 years, Voyager 2 should pass by the star Sirius at a distance of 4.3 light-years.

Why does the Voyager 2 have to be turned off?

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited all four giant planets, and the only one to have flown past distant Uranus and Neptune. As the electrical power decreases, power loads on the spacecraft must be turned off in order to avoid having demand exceed supply.

What will happen to the Voyager probes when they retire?

According to the NASA Website, the Voyager probes will begin powering down electrical components soon with all electronic functions ceasing some time around 2025. With no ability to transmit back to

What were the main goals of Voyager 1 and 2?

Goals: Voyager 1 and 2 were designed to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment to explore the outer solar system. Voyager 1 targeted Jupiter and Saturn before continuing on to chart the far edges of our solar system. Voyager 2 targeted Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before joining its sister probe on their interstellar mission.

How far away is the Earth from Voyager 1?

Voyager 1 image showing Earth from 4 billion miles away, as a mere dot of blue in the vastness of space. Accomplishments: Voyager proved to be one of the greatest missions of discovery in history.