Space

Voyager 1 Group Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probes include 3 collections, or branches, of thrusters: pair of collections of attitude propulsion thrusters and one set of trajectory adjustment procedure thrusters. During the mission's wandering flybys, both kinds of thrusters were actually utilized for various functions. But as Voyager 1 takes a trip on an imperishable path away from the solar system, its own thruster requirements are actually simpler, and either thruster division could be utilized to point the spacecraft at Planet.