: Why haven’t we sent more deep space craft like Voyager 2 out? Technology has become much better over the years, so why haven’t there been new a long distance deep space craft?

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: Why haven’t we sent more deep space craft like Voyager 2 out? Technology has become much better over the years, so why haven’t there been new a long distance deep space craft?

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The voyager missions were sent to the outer planets due to an alignment of them which allowed them to use very little fuel. We will probably have more missions to the outer planets in the future but it is unlikely they will visit multiple planets in one mission like voyager.