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200 pounds of hydrazine is a shitload of monopropellant for a probe that should almost never have to make major adjustments to its alignment.
It is. I'm just surprised they included so much. If you can get by with 100 pounds or 50 pounds, why wouldn't you? Every ounce matters when getting to orbit. No one expected 50 years from these things, did they?
Actually they did. They wanted these probes to be operational as long as possible to continue to transmit the unique data they'll have access to. Nothing has ever been as far out as the Voyagers. Even if its just a vast empty expanse the data is invaluable.
Amazing.