Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Both Voyager probes feature three collections, or branches, of thrusters: two sets of mindset power thrusters and also one set of path adjustment procedure thrusters. During the course of the objective's nomadic flybys, each kinds of thrusters were actually utilized for various functions. However as Voyager 1 takes a trip on an unvarying path out of the solar system, its own thruster requirements are simpler, and also either thruster branch may be used to direct the spacecraft at Planet.