NASA’s Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space

Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object now in interstellar space, recently used a clever thruster technique to maintain communication with Earth.

Facing issues with its thrusters and limited power, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers managed to switch to a backup thruster system.

Despite the spacecraft’s advanced age and declining power, the team successfully reoriented Voyager 1 towards Earth by warming a dormant thruster for an hour.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 have been sending valuable data from the far reaches of the solar system and beyond, Space.com has reported.

read more: https://www.space.com/voyager-1-interstellar-space-thruster-fix

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