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MESSENGER Poised For Third Mercury Encounter

Submit on Friday, December 12th, 2008 05:58

MESSENGER recently completed the second part of a two-part deep-space manoeuvre, providing the remaining 10 percent velocity change needed to place the probe on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009.

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