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We'll surely get faster. Remember that Voyager 1 actually made a pass around one of the planets (Jupiter?) specifically to slow it down so that it could start gathering data. It would not be (relatively speaking) hard to send something out at a far greater velocity.
We can absolutely go way faster. The fastest thing we've ever built is currently the parker solar probe. Relative to the sun, it's traveling so fast it could do a flyby of earths entire width in (I'm just guessing, don't quote me) probably a couple seconds.
I just did the math. Parker's top speed is around 430,000mph. So with the earth being a bit over 7900 miles across it would take a minute for Parker to traverse the width of the earth.
That fly by of Jupiter was the original purpose of the mission.
I am always fascinated by the magnitudes nasa overengineers their missions. The Mars rovers for example. They always get so much more out of it.
I'm glad they do, a lot of the missions I work around have been flying for 20 years when their original mission duration was supposed to be 5 years. The science they do is fantastic.