How long to travel to Saturn?

Answer 1

How long it takes to travel to Saturn depends on:

• where you start from
• how your starting point is moving in relation to Saturn
• how fast you can accelerate
• how long you can accelerate
• what orbital path you choose to follow
• whether you want to just get to Saturn and crash into it or you want to take up an orbit around it

Four spacecraft have been to Saturn.

Pioneer 11 took just over 6 years

Voyager 1 took just over 3 years

Voyager 2 took 4 years

Cassini Huygens took just under 7 years

It has to be remembered that flying a spacecraft straight to Saturn would take a lot longer. To decrease the flight time a gravitational assist path is used. This involves flying the spacecraft to a nearer planet and using the gravitational field of that planet to accelerate the space craft. Cassini Huygens flew by Venus, Earth, Venus again and Jupiter.

Cassini Huygens is the only spacecraft to remain in orbit around Saturn. The other spacecraft were fly-by missions.
well it depends but i assume that it would take 3 years approximately at 17mph. it takes 6, 7 or mabye even 8 both ways.
The time to travel to Saturn would depend on the speed you attained and the path you had to follow. Seldom are the Earth and Saturn arranged to allow a straight flight outward from Earth's orbit to Saturn's orbit.

With current rocket technology, it would take at least a year going one-way. Space probes usually take longer, but save fuel by using paths that allow them to get an assist from planetary gravity. This involves flying the spacecraft to a nearer planet and using the gravitational field of that planet to accelerate the spacecraft. This time would have to be shortened considerably to make manned missions feasible.

Four spacecraft have been to Saturn.

Pioneer 11 took just over 6 years

Voyager 1 took just over 3 years

Voyager 2 took 4 years

Cassini Huygens took just under 7 years

Cassini Huygens flew by Venus, Earth, Venus again and Jupiter. Cassini Huygens is the only spacecraft to remain in orbit around Saturn. The other spacecraft were fly-by missions.

Just like any other trip, the time it takes depends on your speed and the

route you take. But we have some experience with that particular trip. The Cassini-Huygens space probe was designed especially to explore Satuirn and its moons. After 20 years of planning, it was launched on October 15, 1997, and it arrived and entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004 ... a total of about 6.75 years.

It depends on the spacecraft, how fast you are travelling, whether or not you were taking a direct path, and the relative locations of Earth and Saturn to one another as they orbit the sun.

Let's assume that you are traveling in a straight line to Saturn, and that Saturn and Earth are perfectly lined up while you make your journey (which is a distance of 1195.5x106km). It would therefore take you:

-- 1 hour, 6 minutes, and 25 seconds if you were travelling the speed of light.

-- 110 years, 163 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes, and 22 seconds if you were travelling the speed of sound.

-- 3 years, 152 days, 19 hours, and 58 minutes if you were travelling the same speed as Apollo 10 (39,896 km/h).

It is not possible for a spacecraft to fly straight to Saturn. There are two main reasons. One, rockets cannot carry enough fuel to fly straight to Saturn in a reasonable time. Two, the laws of gravitation (orbital dynamics) mean an orbital (curved) path has to be followed. To gain speed, current spacecraft use a technique known as gravitational assist, by flying towards nearer planets and using the planet's gravitational pull to accelerate them.

It takes around 7 years to get to Saturn from earth.

Answer 2

To travel to Saturn can take different periods of time depending on factors like launch trajectory and the type of engine used on the spacecraft. For example, different missions to Saturn have taken different amounts of time. While Pioneer 11 took six and a half years to get to Saturn after its launch in 1973, it took Voyager 2 four years to arrive there in 1981.

Answer 3

At 17 km per second it took two Spacecrafts 3 years and 2 months to travel to Saturn.