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by jacquesm 3121 days ago
Interesting that it will run out of electricity before it will run out of Hydrazine.
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3 ounces of thrust each:

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/did-you-know/

So they probably didn't bother calculating how much fuel to put on board for the planned trajectory. They used the same thrusters for New Horizons!

http://seitzman.gatech.edu/classes/ae6450/MR-103H_Hydrazine_...