The small thruster could be used in flight, if necessary, but is ordinarily held out of service as a backup system.
The little vents had actually been designed to function as smaller thrusters, for fine-tuning the ship's movement.
A set of small thrusters provides Voyager with the capability for attitude control and trajectory correction.
This system is a series of 44 small thrusters on the shuttle that help steer it in space.
So the spacecraft shut down the system and switched to a different one that uses small thrusters.
So firings of its four small thrusters produce fast maneuvers.
Marta said, "It has small maneuvering thrusters at either end, but nothing more.
Our scans revealed small thrusters which can turn it slowly, but nothing else.
Controllers fired small thrusters to raise the satellite's orbit by nearly 60 miles.
As you will remember from your studies, these panels provide power to the small thrusters that keep the ship in its geosynchronous orbit.