Stardust-NExT fires engines to delay arrival at comet
Submit on Friday, February 19th, 2010 05:57
NASA’s Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on 18 February (UTC) to purposely delay its arrival at comet Tempel 1 by 8 hours 21 minutes.
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