What is the future of Voyager 1 and 2?

The Voyagers have enough electrical power and thruster fuel to keep its current suite of science instruments on until at least 2025. By that time, Voyager 1 will be about 13.8 billion miles (22.1 billion kilometers) from the Sun and Voyager 2 will be 11.4 billion miles (18.4 billion kilometers) away.

Will Voyager 2 ever reach another star?

It’s another 10,000 years before the spacecraft actually come near an alien star, specifically a red dwarf star called Ross 248. That flyby will occur about 30,000 years from now, Oberg said, although it might be a stretch to say that the spacecraft will pass by that star.

Is Pioneer 11 still active?

What was Pioneer 11? NASA’s Pioneer 11, a sister spacecraft to Pioneer 10, was the first spacecraft to study Saturn up close. The mission ended in 1995 and Pioneer 11 is on a trajectory to take it out of the solar system.

When will Pioneer 11 pass by another star?

Barring an incident, Pioneer 11 will pass near one of the stars in the constellation in about 4 million years. Space probes leaving the solar system: Voyager 1 in Deep Space (Artist’s Conception). Since the Voyager spacecraft are identical, it could be Voyager 2, as well.

Will New Horizons ever catch up to Voyager 1?

While New Horizons will never catch up to Voyager 1, it will join it in interstellar space sometime in the 2040s. In the meantime, NASA is using the craft’s unique perspective to measure the “blackness” of the sky and the phenomenon of stellar parallax.

When will the voyagers reach interstellar space?

The Voyagers already left the solar system and entered the interstellar space (Voyager 1 on August 25, 2012, and Voyager 2 on November 5, 2018. The others also will leave the heliosphere (see notes 1) and reach the interstellar space in a few years.

What will Pioneer 11 bring to Earth?

Pioneer 11 will pass near the star Lambda Aquila in almost four million years. Like Pioneer 10 and Voyager 1 and 2, Pioneer 11 carries a message from humanity to the cosmos. 1. Imaging Photopolarimeter 2. Helium Vector Magnetometer (HVM)