Tag: Voyager
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Voyager 1 probe fires long-dormant thrusters in interstellar space
Artist’s concept of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has fired a set of four control thrusters for the first time in 37 years, giving the long-lived probe a new way to point itself on its cruise into interstellar space 13 billion miles from Earth. The backup rocket jets were originally…