Controllers lose contact with NEAR after engine burn aborted
Controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory lost contact with the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) probe Sunday, shortly after the probe's on-board systems aborted a planned 15-minute engine burn that would have set up a rendezvous with the asteroid 433 Eros on Jan...
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