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Correction manoeuvre puts MESSENGER back on track

Submit on Monday, April 13th, 2015 22:53

On 8 April, MESSENGER mission operators at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) successfully conducted a contingency orbit-correction manoeuvre (OCM-15a), to supplement a burn on 6 April (OCM-15) that concluded early when the last drops of hydrazine fuel were expended.

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