MESSENGER probe completes flyby of Venus
June 7th, 2007 by
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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