04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... currently located. For the past three years, engineers have noticed that the "attitude control thrusters" onboard Voyager 1 – a thruster that controls the orientation of an object with respect to an inertial frame of reference – have been degrading...
05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
... worked as we expected.” During the test, Starliner’s four launch abort engines, and several orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters simultaneously ignited to rapidly push the spacecraft away from the test stand. Five seconds into flight...
