Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in Time

Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in Time

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Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in TimeAgainst all odds, NASA engineers brought back to life a set of Voyager 1’s thrusters thought to be dead since 2004. With the spacecraft now in deep interstellar space, the fix was driven by growing concerns that its currently used thrusters might soon fail. Racing against time before a long communications blackout, the team made […]

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