New Horizons Changes Course For 2019 Encounter

Credit: NASA
A 20-min. burn of the hydrazine thrusters on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has set the nuclear-powered Pluto probe on its final course for an encounter with a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) located 1 billion mi. beyond its primary target. The fourth and final trajectory-correction maneuver comes as...

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