FINE-TUNING
The early cruise phase of NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey mission was completed last week with the spacecraft's second trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) (see rendering). The thrusters on the spacecraft were fired for 23 sec. at 9:30 a.m. PDT on July 2 to fine-tune the flightpath by changing the...
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