Voyager team reactivates 37 year old hardware by reverse engg(voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Voyager team reactivates 37 year old hardware by reverse engg

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=108

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> "The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters," said Jones, chief engineer at JPL.

Pretty awesome.

dexcs9 lat temu

"These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet."

Does anyone know whats the fuel inside those thrusters is?

Someone9 lat temu

hydrazine (http://www.astronautix.com/m/mr-103.html)

brudgers9 lat temu

recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827369