Pluto System Deemed Safe For Highest-Value Trajectory

Credit: NASA/APL/SWRI
New Horizons controllers have decided the way is clear for a nominal course through Pluto system, passing up their final opportunity for a shift onto a different trajectory to avoid debris or other hazards. The same instrument that has been scanning ahead for collision danger to the fast-moving...

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