24-minute burn sets up NEAR for February 2000 rendezvous
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft executed a 24-minute burn with its large bipropellant engine Sunday, reassuring engineers that the engine will work after it aborted a critical burn last month and setting up the spacecraft for a February 2000 rendezvous with the asteroid 433...
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