Manoeuvre positions MESSENGER for 3rd Mercury encounter
Submit on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 05:56
The Mercury-bound spacecraft MESSENGER has completed the first part of a two-part deep-space manoeuvre, providing the expected 90 percent of the velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009.
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