Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probes include 3 collections, or even branches, of thrusters: pair of collections of mindset power thrusters as well as one set of velocity adjustment procedure thrusters. Throughout the goal's wandering flybys, both types of thrusters were utilized for different objectives. But as Voyager 1 journeys on an unvarying path away from the planetary system, its thruster requirements are simpler, and either thruster division could be utilized to aim the spacecraft at Earth.