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Multiple puffs of hydrazine every day to keep the craft stable, for more than 50 years? How big are these tanks?
by stevage 2y ago
Multiple puffs of hydrazine every day to keep the craft stable, for more than 50 years? How big are these tanks?
- floppiplopp 2y ago100 kg apparently, supposedly providing fuel until 2034. Those are just very small puffs.
- throw310822 2y agoAbout 680 thousand puffs so far (40 x 365 x 47). Also, "When the team initially switched Voyager over to the trajectory correction thrusters six years ago, the tube opening was 0.01 inches (0.25 millimeters) across".
- Aachen 2y ago$ qalc > 100 kg / 680e3 approx. 147.06 mg Each puff would be <150 milligrams if the tanks were empty now, and since they're not... that's some small puffs! (Not sure what the USA weight unit is, stones or something? DDG says that's 0.000024 stones)