Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Both Voyager probes include 3 collections, or divisions, of thrusters: pair of collections of attitude power thrusters and one collection of velocity adjustment procedure thrusters. Throughout the mission's nomadic flybys, both forms of thrusters were made use of for different reasons. However as Voyager 1 travels on a constant path out of the planetary system, its own thruster requirements are actually simpler, as well as either thruster division could be made use of to point the spacecraft at The planet.