Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probings feature 3 sets, or branches, of thrusters: 2 sets of mindset propulsion thrusters as well as one collection of trail correction procedure thrusters. In the course of the mission's planetal flybys, both forms of thrusters were actually utilized for various reasons. But as Voyager 1 journeys on an imperishable path out of the planetary system, its thruster needs are actually simpler, and also either thruster branch could be utilized to aim the space capsule at Earth.