The Voyagers will never return to Earth. However 2025 is the year NASA expect to lose contact with them due to insufficient power to transmit a usable radio signal.
Is Voyager 1 returning to Earth?
Will Voyager 1 ever come back to Earth?
Engineers expect each spacecraft to continue operating at least one science instrument until around 2025. … The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036, depending on how much power the spacecraft still have to transmit a signal back to Earth.
Where is the Voyager 1 now 2021?
As of November 4, 2021, Voyager 1 is believed to be more than 14.4 billion miles from Earth, NASA reports.
Will Voyager 1 get destroyed?
There is nothing to destroy any of the probes leaving our solar system (there are five of them, not just Voyager 1). Space is exceedingly empty.
Is Voyager 1 getting closer to Earth?
Voyager 1 is currently the furthest human-made object from Earth, and it's moving fast. It has been zooming on its path since September 1977, and at the time of this writing, it's more than 137 AU (Astronomical Units) away from us. But right now, it's actually getting closer to Earth.
Will Voyager 1 ever leave the Milky Way?
It is doubtful that the spacecraft will ever be able to leave the Milky Way, as they would have to attain a velocity of 1000 kilometers/second, and unless they get a huge, huge, huge velocity boost from something unexpected, they will probably end up being in the Milky Way's rotation forever.
How long will it take Voyager 1 to reach Earth?
They are the farthest man made objects from the earth now. It has no fuel or large bodies to make it change direction so its outbound forever, so to speak. Nope. Its been outbound for 40 years… even if we could duplicate the incredible speeds, it would take 40 years to return, certainly not in 2025.
Will humans ever leave solar system?
As respondent Charles Hornbostel explained, “With human exploration of Mars expected no earlier than the 2025-30 time frame, it is reasonable to expect humans will not have reached the orbits of Neptune and Pluto by century's end, barring any breakthroughs in exotic propulsion technology.”
How much power does Voyager 1 have left?
As of January 20, 2022, Voyager 1 has 70.42% of the plutonium-238 that it had at launch. By 2050, it will have 56.5% left, far too little to keep it functional.