Just like the original Star Trek television series, the Voyager spacecraft were launched originally on a five-year mission that apparently is going on forever. The Voyagers each weighed about 1797 pounds at takeoff, and without the various appendages, could fit inside a four-meter square box. Both craft included two cameras, one with a wide angle lens.
Both Voyagers continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto.
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- Assuming a direct flight at the fastest speed yet attained (44,000 MPH I think) it
would take 6.9 years.
That is assuming no time for acceleration or deceleration.
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SoberDub | 08/29/07
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What the age?
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Time to Neptune
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