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MESSENGER probe completes flyby of Venus

Submit on Thursday, June 7th, 2007 04:36

NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft swung by Venus for the second time early this evening for a gravity assist that shrank the radius of its orbit around the Sun, pulling it closer to Mercury. At nearly 24,000 km/h, this change in MESSENGER’s velocity is the largest of the mission.

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