Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probings include 3 collections, or even branches, of thrusters: pair of collections of attitude propulsion thrusters and also one set of velocity adjustment maneuver thrusters. In the course of the objective's planetal flybys, each forms of thrusters were utilized for various objectives. However as Voyager 1 journeys on an unfading path out of the solar system, its own thruster necessities are easier, as well as either thruster branch could be made use of to point the spacecraft at The planet.