Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years

CAPE CANAVERAL—On Tuesday, after a hiatus of 37 years, the quartet of thrusters at the rear of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired to test if they could keep the probe oriented with 10-millisecond pulses. The last time Voyager 1 used its trajectory correction maneuvering (TCM) system was...

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