{"id":16380,"date":"2019-01-31T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=16380"},"modified":"2019-01-31T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:26:47","slug":"voyager-1s-trajectory-correction-maneuver-tcm-thrusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=16380","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 1&#8217;s trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) thrusters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In 2017 NASA announced it had successfully fired all 4 of Voyager 1&#8217;s trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) thrusters, dormant since 1980. These will replace a degraded set of jets which kept the antenna pointed at Earth, allowing Voyager to transmit data for 2 to 3 extra years&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 2017 NASA announced it had successfully fired all 4 of Voyager 1&#39;s trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) thrusters, dormant since 1980. These will replace a degraded set of jets which kept the antenna pointed at Earth, allowing Voyager to transmit data for 2 to 3 extra years <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fxOItoibiU\">pic.twitter.com\/fxOItoibiU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fermat&#39;s Library (@fermatslibrary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fermatslibrary\/status\/1090958638825590785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2017 NASA announced it had successfully fired all 4 of Voyager 1&#8217;s trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) thrusters, dormant since 1980. These will replace a degraded set of jets which kept the antenna pointed at Earth, allowing Voyager to transmit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=16380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploration-spaciale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16381,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380\/revisions\/16381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}