Space

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probes include 3 collections, or branches, of thrusters: 2 collections of attitude propulsion thrusters and one collection of path correction maneuver thrusters. In the course of the purpose's nomadic flybys, both forms of thrusters were actually used for different functions. Yet as Voyager 1 journeys on an imperishable course out of the solar system, its own thruster needs are simpler, as well as either thruster branch may be utilized to direct the space probe at Earth.