Re: Galactic Drifter SETI (update)

"...Though New Horizons will also reach 100 AU, it will never pass
Voyager 1, because Voyager was boosted by multiple gravity assists that
make its speed faster than New Horizons will travel. Voyager 1 is
escaping the solar system at 17 kilometers per second. When New
Horizons reaches that same distance 32 years from now, propelled by a
single planetary swingby, it will be moving about 13 kilometers per
second... "

http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=20620

Eric Chomko wrote:

Sort of begs the question, when will be build a probe that will pass
the Voyager probes on their way to the stars? Surely V-1 and V-2 will
make it into interplanetary space and beyond; but won't we make a probe
or three that will pass them in this regard?


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