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NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause - NASA Science

NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the thrusters required creativity and risk, but the team wants to have them available as ...

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