{"id":7241,"date":"2017-12-16T17:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:59:17","slug":"linked-voyager-1-fires-up-thrusters-after-37-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/12\/16\/linked-voyager-1-fires-up-thrusters-after-37-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2362,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/news\\\/news.php?feature=7014&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20201224191702\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/news\\\/news.php?feature=7014&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:38:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-29 05:53:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-29 05:53:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=7014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via NASA JPL<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, Voyager engineers fired up the four TCM thrusters for the first time in 37 years and tested their ability to orient the spacecraft using 10-millisecond pulses. The team waited eagerly as the test results traveled through space, taking 19 hours and 35 minutes to reach an antenna in Goldstone, California, that is part of NASA&#8217;s Deep Space Network.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lo and behold, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, they learned the TCM thrusters worked perfectly &#8212; and just as well as the attitude control thrusters.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Without a doubt, my favorite story of last week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NASA JPL: On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, Voyager engineers fired up the four TCM thrusters for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-12-16T18:01:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"dbfe65ac-150d-478d-82d9-392eb7ba3d85","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-12-16T18:01:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2_5lrBUNR42C2Tkut7o9hQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1SN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6022,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/linked-voyagers\/","url_meta":{"origin":7241,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Voyagers&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Vimeo: Travel along with the Voyager spacecrafts as they traverse the solar system on their planetary expedition spanning over three decades. 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But chances are, most ninth-graders don\u2019t know the name of a single active astronaut\u2014many don\u2019t even know that Americans are up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6968,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/linked-the-whale\/","url_meta":{"origin":7241,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Whale&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via 500Ish (a Medium Blog): Most of the time, when you hear about a company the size of Amazon moving into a new space, eyes roll but heads don\u2019t. But when Amazon moves into your space, it\u2019s fucking terrifying. Because they execute. 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