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by stevage 645 days ago
Multiple puffs of hydrazine every day to keep the craft stable, for more than 50 years? How big are these tanks?
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100 kg apparently, supposedly providing fuel until 2034. Those are just very small puffs.
About 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".

    $ 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)

Probably ounces ("oz") for something like this, so around 0.005 oz then. The original 100 kg is equivalent to 220.5 lbs (which is pronounced "pounds", of course).
147 mg is about 2.27 grains
Grains. 2.27 grains