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Engineers working on NASA 's Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft’s thrusters.
After 47 years , a fuel tube inside the thrusters has become clogged with silicon dioxide, a byproduct that appears with age from a rubber diaphragm in the spacecraft's fuel tank.
After weeks of careful planning, the team switched the spacecraft to a different set of thrusters, which are fueled by liquid hydrazine.
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