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Comment by CSMastermind

If I remember correctly Voyager benefitted from a particular alignment of the planets to get multiple slingshot boosts from gravity wells.

Part of the appeal of the mission was that it will be a very long time before we could possibly do this again because the planets won't line up correctly and we have no technology to speed the probes up to the velocities that the voyager probes achieved.

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