Voyager 1 this close to leaving solar system
Is a project like Voyager worth repeating every so often? Speaking in financial terms relative to other space ventures, would it really be all that expensive to launch a deep space probe every few years and send it hurdling off toward some distant recess of space, outfitted with whatever state-of-the-art equipment we had available at the time? It just seems that we keep coming back to Voyager and we continue to be fascinated with the measurements it takes these many years later. Why are we not preparing even more capable craft for deep space exploration that future generations of humans could marvel at?