Final manoeuvre positions MESSENGER for Mercury orbit insertion
Submit on Friday, November 27th, 2009 05:58
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft completed its fifth and final deep-space manoeuvre of the mission, providing the expected velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to enter into orbit about Mercury in March 2011.
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