Messenger Turns To Helium For Mercury Mission Boost

Credit: Messenger: NASA
HOUSTON – The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory team behind NASA’s Messenger mission – the first spacecraft to circle the planet Mercury – has devised a strategy to extend unprecedented low orbit operations by several weeks, though the probe has spent most of its hydrazine fuel and would...

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