Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probings include three sets, or even branches, of thrusters: two collections of mindset propulsion thrusters and also one set of path correction procedure thrusters. Throughout the goal's planetal flybys, both forms of thrusters were utilized for different reasons. But as Voyager 1 travels on an unfading path out of the planetary system, its thruster requirements are easier, and also either thruster division can be utilized to aim the space capsule at Planet.