NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause Science

[rbanffy]

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2025/05/14/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/

[pingou]

Don't they use reaction wheels to orient the spacecraft and why not?

[emchammer → pingou]

The reaction wheels eventually become saturated and the angular momentum has to be dumped by another method.