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It will definitely happen, the only real question is if we're still talking to New Horizon when it passes Voyager 1.

In fact I wonder if we'll stop talking to Voyager 1 before or after New Horizon.



New Horizons is slower than Voyager 1, and is also decelerating more. New Horizons will never pass the others. Voyager 1 is the fastest probe in an escape trajectory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Far_future


For some reason I thought I had read that Horizons was faster and would eventually eclipse it, odd.

Anyway I'm still curious if V1 outlasts New Horizons


I am sure that your article said that it's newer and the launch event was on the plane of the ecliptic.

I read that one too.

Anyway, the Wikipedia article says:

  After 2036, both [Voyager] probes will be out of range of the Deep Space Network.[14]
As for New Horizons:

  [The RTG] will decay too far to power the transmitters in the 2030s.
So we could lose contact with three in succession. Or, the DSN could become even deeper!




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