How long would it take to travel Uranus?

7. Uranus, 8.5 Years (Voyager) Voyager made the trip in a little under a decade.

Will we ever travel to Uranus?

To take advantage of the alignment, a mission to Neptune would need to launch by around 2031 and one to Uranus by the mid-2030s. The window is “the right time to launch”, Mark Hofstadter, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said at the London meeting.

How long is a year on Uranus?

84 years
Uranus/Orbital period

How long is a day on Uranus?

0d 17h 14m
Uranus/Length of day

How long would it take to get to Uranus from Earth?

How long it would take to get to Uranus from Earth would depend on the path chosen and on where Uranus and Earth were in their orbits when the mission was launched. For example, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched on Aug 20, 1977 and it reached Uranus on Jan 24 1986. So, Voyager 2 took almost nine and a half years to reach Uranus.

How long did it take Voyager 2 to reach Uranus?

For example, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched on Aug 20, 1977 and it reached Uranus on Jan 24 1986. So, Voyager 2 took almost nine and a half years to reach Uranus. Continue the conversation on

How big is Uranus compared to Earth?

Uranus is a large planet, about 4 times that of Earth: Uranus: 31,763 miles (51,118 kilometers) diameter and 99,786 miles (160,590 kilometers) circumference. Earth: 7,918 miles (12,742 kilometers) diameter and 24,901 miles (40,074 kilometers) circumference.

What is the distance between Uranus and the Sun?

One AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. Since its orbit is elliptical, the distance between Uranus and the sun varies between 1.7 billion miles (2.7 billion kilometers) when it is nearest to the sun, and 1.9 billion miles (3 billion kilometers) when it is farthest from the sun. Uranus completes one orbit every 84 Earth years.