Cassini Set To Switch To Backup Thrusters
Degradation in performance of some of the eight thrusters that have handled attitude control on NASA’s Cassini Saturn probe for the past 11 years has led mission managers to order a switch to the redundant system. Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory noticed degraded performance in two of...
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