Currently, Voyager 1 is at about 144AU from Earth. NASA actually has a live counter/mission status website for the Voyager probes at https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
If you want some crazy distance/timescales, Voyager 1 is traveling at just over 38,000 miles per hour (relative to the sun). At that velocity, it will take 300 years for it to reach the Oort Cloud (arguably the outer edge of the solar system), but because the Oort Cloud is estimated to be very, very large, it'll take V1 30,000 years to exit the Cloud.
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Now I want to figure out how to get something travelling out that way with just a couple of instruments, and just the rest of it being propellant. How fast could we get out to the Oort cloud/beyond?
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Currently, Voyager 1 is at about 144AU from Earth. NASA actually has a live counter/mission status website for the Voyager probes at https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
If you want some crazy distance/timescales, Voyager 1 is traveling at just over 38,000 miles per hour (relative to the sun). At that velocity, it will take 300 years for it to reach the Oort Cloud (arguably the outer edge of the solar system), but because the Oort Cloud is estimated to be very, very large, it'll take V1 30,000 years to exit the Cloud.
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