Space

Voyager 1 Staff Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probes include 3 collections, or branches, of thrusters: 2 sets of perspective power thrusters and also one set of velocity correction procedure thrusters. In the course of the mission's planetary flybys, each kinds of thrusters were made use of for various reasons. But as Voyager 1 travels on a constant road away from the planetary system, its own thruster necessities are simpler, and also either thruster branch could be made use of to point the space capsule at Planet.

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