Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Both Voyager probes feature three collections, or even branches, of thrusters: pair of sets of perspective propulsion thrusters and one collection of path adjustment maneuver thrusters. During the course of the mission's planetal flybys, each kinds of thrusters were made use of for various purposes. However as Voyager 1 journeys on an unchanging pathway out of the planetary system, its thruster necessities are actually less complex, and either thruster division could be made use of to aim the space probe at Planet.

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