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MESSENGER settles into eight-hour orbit around Mercury

Submit on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 22:57

MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, conducted the second of two manoeuvres required to reduce the spacecraft’s orbital period about Mercury.

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