New Horizons Maneuver Optimizes Future Flyby

December 11, 2017
HOUSTON—NASA’s New Horizons carried out a small course-correction maneuver Dec. 9 that is intended to optimize an anticipated flyby of the Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019. Launched on Jan. 19, 2006, New Horizons earned distinction in July 2015 as it carried out the first close flyby of...

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