Manoeuvre delays MESSENGER’s impact, extends orbital operations
Submit on Friday, January 23rd, 2015 22:58
MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) successfully conducted a manoeuvre designed to raise the spacecraft’s minimum altitude sufficiently to extend orbital operations and delay the probe’s inevitable impact onto Mercury’s surface until early next spring.
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