It's harder than you'd expect. At that distance solar panels are essentially useless, so you do need nuclear power, and you're continuously exposed to cosmic rays, so you need radiation-hardened electronics. Both of these drive up the cost. The Voyagers also had the the outer planets in alignment to give it a gravity assist, so if you want to get there on the same time scales you'll need a more powerful rocket as well.
Anyway if they used the same technology, but sent spacecraft out into space from locations all around the Earth at the same time, then we could gather data as this fleet headed into deep space.
Like one of those big planet explosions in science fiction movies, but instead of an explosion, just tiny space crafts.
That’s why we need a way to create gravity artificially if we are going to do any space exploration. It would be a bit crap if we could only move in 2 dimensions.
silly question: can CRs be harnessed for power?
Has anyone ever updated Commodore's Visible Solar System? Very inspiring.
https://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=https%3A//www.lemon64.com/g...
But it is a sort of map, ok probably Google maps rather than street view :)
"Oh, it's all black here too" ;)
I think we should have a new mission, send out huge amounts of tiny crafts in all directions at the same time, to get a sort of Google street view of our solar system and interstellar space. I bet we could create crafts with modern tech that where tiny and much less expensive that the original pioneer and voyager crafts.