Controllers recontact NEAR; hope for summer asteroid orbit
Ground controllers were trying to work the orbital angles yesterday that would set up NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) probe to enter orbit around the asteroid 433 Eros next summer, after regaining contact with the probe a long 24 hours after it went silent during a critical engine burn...
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