Archived After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters (arstechnica.com)
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Archived After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters (arstechnica.com)
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https://archive.fo/uINuy :
'"The Voyager team got more excited each time with each milestone in the thruster test. '
'This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special. '
'Then, the Earth-bound spacecraft team had to wait another 19 hours and 35 minutes to see if the spacecraft responded. '
'In recent decades, Voyager had been relying on its primary thrusters to keep the spacecraft properly oriented so that it can maintain a communications link with Earth. '
'At present, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is 21 billion kilometers from Earth, or about 141 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. '
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