Original Coverage: Voyager 1’s Primary Thrusters Revived Before DSN Command Pause

Voyager 1’s primary thrusters had been deemed a loss since a heater failure back in 2004. Back in 2004 engineers had determined that the heater failure was likely unfixable, but over twenty years later the team was willing to give it another shot. Analyzing the original failure data indicated that a glitch in the heater control circuit was likely to blame, so they might actually still work fine.

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