Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Both Voyager probes include three sets, or branches, of thrusters: pair of collections of mindset power thrusters and one set of velocity correction procedure thrusters. In the course of the mission's nomadic flybys, both types of thrusters were actually made use of for various purposes. But as Voyager 1 journeys on an unchanging course out of the planetary system, its own thruster necessities are less complex, and either thruster division could be utilized to aim the spacecraft at Planet.