is there a space ship that can travel in light-years??

Question

besides in star wars lol.

Answer 1

Perhaps the most famous space probe is Pioneer 10. Launched in 1972, the probe was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, the first to visit Jupiter and the first to use a planet's gravity to change course and reach solar-system escape velocity.

Pioneer 10 was only designed to last 21 months, but it's been traveling for over 30 years and over 7 billion miles. Signals travel nearly 11 hours to reach Earth, and scientists use the data transmitted to develop ideas for future communications technology. Pioneer is powered by electricity derived from decaying plutonium 238, and the energy is gradually fading. Mission controllers suspect there won't be enough electricity to power the radio transmitter much longer.

A light year is 6 trillion miles. That means that the Pioneer probe, in all those years, has only gone 0.00116% of a light year. A little over one thousandth of a light year in over 30 years. It's a big universe. Evenutally, though, in about 120,000 years, if it were pointed in the right direction, the Pioneer 10 should reach the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest stars to the Earth (about 4 light years distant).

Answer 2

We all travel in light-years, although at a speed nowhere near the speed of light. If you think you are standing still right now, you don't know much about the universe.

If you mean, is there a space ship that travels faster than light, then no, there is none, except in sci-fi and fantasy.

Answer 3

No real space craft we have ever made can travel so far. Light years are so big it is hard to imagine. Pluto is only 6 light hours away, and the recently launched unmanned space craft on its way there now will take many years to cover that distance which is 1,400 times less than one light year.

Answer 4

Sure. Voyager is moving away quite quickly and has flown for 30 years. In another 18942 years it will have travelled a lightyear. A lightyear is a measure of distance. As for spaceships travelling at lightspeed; no. None built by humans atleast.

Answer 5

All spaceships travel in light-years. They also travel in inches, meters, miles, furlongs, ... etc. A light-year is a unit of distance. Since spaceships travel some distance (even if it's only a few inches), it does not matter what unit you use to measure this distance.

1 inch = 2.685 × 10^-18 light-years

Answer 6

No, and it's probably impossible. To get around the light-speed limit would require some way of "warping" or bending space or changing the speed of light.. basically it's so far beyond any technology that we can conceive of that it's firmly in the realms of sci-fi.

Answer 7

not as of 2007, but who knows maybe in the future, my point of view is that the future has already occured and we are in a different timeline so maybe in a couple thousand years besides, if there were a machine capable of traveling at the speed of light, it would move backwards or forwards in time.

Answer 8

What distinction is it meant to make despite if he (she?) is interior or exterior? In the two case, she (he?) could be going an identical velocity through fact the deliver. If that velocity is c (impossible by using the way), the midget does not age in any respect. ===> E

Answer 9

light year is the distance light travels in one year, so it is a distance measure. what you are saying is like "is there a spaceship that can travel in metres?

Answer 10

The starship enterprise