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Voyager 1 has since become the fastest and most distant man-made object in the Universe, travelling at around 61,500km/h at a distance of 17.6 billion km from the Earth. Perhaps most incredible of all, NASA is still in communication with it, despite radio signals taking 16 hours to reach it.
As of 2013, the probe was moving with a relative velocity to the Sun of about 61,197 kilometres per hour (38,026 mph). [ 51 ] With the velocity the probe is currently maintaining, Voyager 1 is traveling about 523 million km (325 million mi) per year, [ 52 ] or about one light-year per 18,000 years.
Present Status. Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.6 AU per year. Voyager 2 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.3 AU per year. Explore.
Voyager 1 moves at a speed of 38,210 miles per hour (17 km/s). Voyager 2 moves at a speed of 35,000 miles per hour (15 km/s). So, for a portion of the year, Earth comes around the side of...
Voyager 1 is currently zipping through space at around 38,000 mph (17 kilometers per second), according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Voyager 1’s closest approach to Saturn was at 23:46 UT on Nov. 12, 1980 at a range of about 78,000 miles (126,000 km). After Saturn, Voyager 1 headed north out of the ecliptic plane at a speed of about 3.5 AU per year.
Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.5 AU per year, 35 degrees out of the ecliptic plane to the north, in the general direction of the solar apex (the direction of the sun's motion relative to nearby stars).
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is departing the solar system at a speed of 17.4 kilometers per second (39,000 miles per hour). Voyager 2 is currently 7.9 billion kilometers (4.9 billion miles) from Earth, having traveled 11.3 billion kilometers (6.9 billion miles) since its launch.
How fast is it travelling? Voyager 1 is moving at a speed of just over 38,000 miles per hour. It reached this speed by performing several gravity assists—a slingshot technique where the...
Voyager 1 had 2 gravity assists, Voyager 2 had 4 assists, but one of those reduced Voyager's speed to below that of Voyager 1. The speed graph after launch looks like this. Speed drops off as the craft gets further away from the Sun (=has to climb out of the Sun's gravitational field).