# Where's Voyager? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 21, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689 "2000-02-21T17:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/1 "2000-02-21T17:13:00Z")
Sorry, Trekkies, this isn’t a reference to that sorry spinoff (I’m a ‘Next Gen’ man meself). What’s the status of our deepest deep-space probe, Voyager? Where is it at this point? What’s the next thing we’re expecting to get from it (if anything in our lifetimes)? Where is it headed? Any particular points of galactic interest in its long-term future? * * * “You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment.” - Bill Hicks ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/2 "2000-02-21T17:28:00Z")
Actually, The Voyager(s) isn’t the “deepest” space probe. Pioneer is, and it left the Solar System more than a decade ago. Voyager I and II weren’t technically “deep space” probes. Their primary missions were to explore the gas giants, which they’ve already done. The only potential “deep space” mission I can think of is the far fetched one of introducing our species to sentient life outside our system. That’s what the “gold phonograph record” was all about. As far as I know JPL lost touch with these probes, long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/3 "2000-02-21T17:34:00Z")
Note to self: Do research first, THEN answer question. I was totally wrong! Go here to read the latest updates on the Voyager missions. [http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/vimdesc.html](http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/vimdesc.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cheese\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cheese\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheese_Head)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/4 "2000-02-23T17:38:00Z")
Interesting. So V1 and V2 are both expected to provide data until 2020. I didn’t know there was such a thing as solar and interstellar wind. ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/5 "2000-02-23T17:57:00Z")
Here’s the link about Pioneer 10 that I posted before the board crashed. [http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space\_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html](http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html) ---
**Author:** ![CraterLayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@CraterLayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CraterLayer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/6 "2013-09-30T19:55:02Z")
Has just left the solar system. ---
**Author:** ![pdunderhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pdunderhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pdunderhill)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/7 "2013-09-30T20:00:22Z")
Where is the Voyager probe? Well where did you bloody leave it, I can’t be responsible for everything, look it’s over there next to the car keys. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/8 "2013-09-30T21:01:09Z")
> [@CraterLayer](#): > > Has just left the solar system. Apparently, it’s a little more [complicated](http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/13/voyager_1_space_probe_is_in_now_in_interstellar_space.html). It’s in interstellar space, but it hasn’t left the solar system. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-voyager/7689/9 "2013-09-30T21:06:48Z")
**Moderator Action** This thread goes all the way back to 2000. I don’t see any good reason for its revival. Let’s let the poor zombie rest in peace. Anyone wishing to comment on Voyager may do so in this much more recent thread: > **[Voyager has left the Solar System. Space science dopers, please weigh in...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=703455)** > > Apparently, Voyager 1 has passed the Heliopause, and so is now in interstellar space. Here’s the article I first saw this on\*. I’ve googled up many links, many of which are utter crap. What’s the real deal? Has Voyager crossed the Heliopause? Has... Thread closed.