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You can't. Voyager's launch date coincided with a planetary alignment allowing for gravitational slingshotting out of our galaxy. We have to wait for the next alignment.


If you only want to get a gravity boost from Jupiter and Saturn (like V1) I wonder if you wouldn't have to wait as long, say, every 20 years instead of every 176?

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline/#event-a-once-...

But you'd still have to fly for ~40 years to get to where they are now, and they'll keep on flying during those 40 years.


You don't even need to fly by Saturn - New Horizons only used a Jupiter gravity assist, and those are available about once a year.


I think you mean solar system.




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