Space

Voyager 1 Crew Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

.Both Voyager probes feature three collections, or branches, of thrusters: two collections of attitude propulsion thrusters and also one collection of path adjustment maneuver thrusters. During the course of the mission's planetal flybys, each types of thrusters were used for various functions. However as Voyager 1 journeys on an unfading course away from the planetary system, its own thruster demands are actually easier, and also either thruster branch could be made use of to point the spacecraft at Earth.