Space

Voyager 1 Crew Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Each Voyager probes include three sets, or branches, of thrusters: 2 collections of mindset power thrusters and one collection of path correction procedure thrusters. Throughout the mission's earthly flybys, both types of thrusters were made use of for various reasons. However as Voyager 1 takes a trip on an unvarying path out of the planetary system, its own thruster necessities are simpler, and also either thruster division could be used to point the space probe at Earth.