Question

What was a constraint for sending spacecraft to the outer solar system?

Answer 1

Answer:

• After that momentous event, Voyager 1 is now adrift between the stars. Light-years of essentially nothing between it and … well, nothing else. In about 300 years, the craft will reach the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud, the thin, diffuse shell of frozen debris left over from the formation of the solar system.

Answer 2

Answer:

NASA's twin Voyager probes – Voyager 1 and Voyager 2- were launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system. Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched about two weeks later, on Sept. 5. Since then, the spacecraft have been traveling along different flight paths and at different speeds. Voyager 1 passed the boundary of interstellar space in 2012, while Voyager 2 is in the outer reaches of the solar system.