Voyager 1 Performs 70 Degree Roll Maneuver 17 Billion Kilometers From Earth

“To enable Voyager 1’s Low Energy Charged Particle instrument to gather these data, the spacecraft performed a maneuver on March 7 that it hadn’t done for 21 years, except in a preparatory test last month. Voyager engineers performed a test roll and hold on Feb. 2 for two hours, 15 minutes. When data from Voyager 1 were received on Earth some 16 hours later, the mission team verified the test was successful and the spacecraft had no problem in reorienting itself and locking back onto its guide star, Alpha Centauri.” More