How far can Voyager 1 go before we lose contact
In 1977, the Voyager 1 space probe was launched to study the outer solar system. The two Voyager space probe have become the longest operating spacecraft in spaceflight history. 46 years later, Voyager 1 is now 23.816 billion kilometers (159.20 AU) away from Earth and is travelling at 60,000 km/h. Visualized location of the Voyager space probes. Despite Voyager 1 being the furthest man made object from Earth, we are still able to communicate with the space probe on a regular basis. But how far can it go before we can no longer communicate with it? Antena of Voyager space probes. To answer this, we need to know how Voyager 1 recives and transmit data from 23 billion kilometers away. A 20 kilowatt signal is transmitted from earth to voyager 1 using radio waves. It takes alomost 20 hours for th signal to reach the sace probe where it's sensetive antena picks up the signal. For comarison, it takes the rover on Mars an average 15 minutes to send messages back to Earth. Voyager starts se...