Voyager hydrazine propulsion subsystem
Mission-specific integrated hydrazine propulsion subsystem for the Voyager spacecraft, preserving the distinct mission-module attitude/trajectory thrusters and propulsion-module reaction engines without inventing an unsupported thruster model.
Identity
- Aliases
- Voyager hydrazine thruster subsystemVoyager propulsion thrusters
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- integrated-system
- Kind
- chemical-thruster
- Name
- Voyager hydrazine propulsion subsystem
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Mission-specific integrated hydrazine propulsion subsystem for the Voyager spacecraft, preserving the distinct mission-module attitude/trajectory thrusters and propulsion-module reaction engines without inventing an unsupported thruster model.
- Propellants
- hydrazine
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 4, 2026 at 23:41:46 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 4, 2026 at 23:41:46 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-04
- Note
- NASA identifies 16 hydrazine thrusters on the mission module, including four trajectory-correction units and two redundant six-thruster attitude branches, plus the Voyager propulsion architecture.
- Publisher
- NASA
- Title
- Voyager Backgrounder (NASA News Release 81-116)
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-04
- Note
- NASA flight-data documentation describes Voyager's integrated hydrazine propulsion subsystem and the 16 small-thruster mission-module architecture.
- Publisher
- NASA Glenn Research Center
- Title
- TC-6 Voyager Flight Data Report (1976)
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-04
- Note
- NASA confirms Voyager's three thruster branches—two attitude branches and one trajectory-correction branch—remain used for pointing and interstellar mission operations.
- Publisher
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Title
- Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-04
- Note
- NASA documents Voyager's continuing interstellar mission and active hydrazine attitude control context.
- Publisher
- NASA
- Title
- Frequently Asked Questions — Voyager