Space

Voyager 1 Staff Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probes feature 3 collections, or branches, of thrusters: two collections of mindset propulsion thrusters and also one set of path correction procedure thrusters. During the mission's planetal flybys, both sorts of thrusters were made use of for different functions. But as Voyager 1 takes a trip on an abiding road out of the solar system, its thruster needs are less complex, and either thruster branch may be utilized to point the spacecraft at Earth.

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