Is it true that Voyager 1 is the fastest man made object created so far.?

Answer 1

NO, the New Horizons Probe, which was launched January 2006, is going faster. When launched from Earth it achieved a speed of 36,300 mph (16.21 km/s) before the main engine shut down. However, Voyager held the title of fastest manmade object until the launch of the New Horizon. Voyager 1 still holds the title as the probe that has traveled the furthest.

The rocket that launched the Voyager probes was only strong enough to put the probes into a high orbit. After that all if its additional acceleration was created by making "orbital slingshots," using the power of gravity to make them move faster.

New Horizons is now proceeding to a Jupiter gravity assist in February 2007. It will pass through the Jupiter system at 21 km/s (47,000 mph)…” “The flyby will increase New Horizons' speed away from the Sun by nearly 4 km/s (9,000 mph), putting the spacecraft on a faster trajectory to Pluto.” After that the New Horizons probe will travel on to the Kuiper Belt, the home of the comets.

Answer 2

Fastest Man Made Object

Answer 3

It is ..... Nasa's ATLAS v551 rocket .

Voyager is now the second .

Jan 19th 2PM EST, 5..4..3..2..1..and LIFTOFF - NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft blasts off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a ATLAS v551 rocket. A journey to the edge of the solar system, as we know it, to Pluto and its moon Charon - some 3 billion miles away .

The rocket itself was the fastest man-made object to blast off from earth’s gravitational pull at 36000 mph, 100 times faster than the fastest jetliner; it crossed the Moon in 9 hours and will reach Jupiter in Feb 2007. From there on, it will use Jupiter’s gravitational pull to slingshot itself into the final leg of the several billion mile journey at 47000 mph toward the Kuiper belt. The spacecraft is scheduled to reach Pluto on June 14th 2015 and send photos from Pluto and its moon Charon, and what’s more, if all else is successful it will probe even further beyond the solar system into the vast expanses of Kuiper belt during 2016-2020 and send us never before seen images of the universe beyond our known horizons. a journey so long just to see whats beyond.

Answer 4

YES. Its propulsion took time to accumulate but is traveling faster than any spacecraft at this second in time.Notice how the horizon guy only told you its velocity and not voyagers.Lets compare the two.

Voyager 57,437 mph
New horizon 47,000 mph

So even after NH flyby to the sun velocity increase of 9000 mph Voyager will still be traveling 437 mph faster.

Answer 5

Not in Amerika.

A German solar probe reached faster speeds - It made the Guinness Book of World Records.

See:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=46995


As far as interplanetary probes are concerned, the spacecraft called 'New Horizons' currently on its way to Pluto has the speed record so far. It can reach 36,000 mph (about 57900 km/h).


"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The fastest spacecraft ever launched began the first full day of its 3-billion mile journey to Pluto, where it will study the last unexplored planet and the mysterious icy area that surrounds it."

Quoted from:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060119/nasa_pluto_060120?s_name=&no_ads=

Answer 6

not anymore there is a new spacecraft capable of reaching 180,000 miles per hour this is the concept of solar sail this spacecraft is the cosmos 1

hey we are talking the fastest cosmos 1 can travel at 180000 mph...helios 1 & 2 are now orbitng the sun with speed of 158000 mph

cosmos 1 is slow starter it will take 3 years before it can attain the max. speed of 180000 mph

Answer 7

If you expand your definition a bit to include natural objects accelerated by man to high speeds, the clear winner for shear speed are atoms and molecules accelerated by particle beam accelerators. The highest speed is constantly changing due to improvements in the accelerators, but speeds of over 14,000 km/sec are obtained by common 1 MeV (million electron volt) accelerators. The largest accelerator at Fermilabs is now up to 2 TeV (trillion electron volts) and can accelerate aprticles to near the speed of light. That is how they found the top quark.

Answer 8

Yes, it is. It has taken decades to get to that speed, but it is the fastest man-made object to date.