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New Horizons ‘speeds up’ on final approach to Pluto

Submit on Friday, July 3rd, 2015 22:57

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently performed a 23-second thruster burst – the third and final planned targeting manoeuvre of New Horizons’ approach phase to Pluto. It was also the smallest of the nine course corrections since New Horizons launched in January 2006.

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