New Horizons Rockets Toward Pluto and Beyond

Credit: LOCKHEED MARTIN/PATRICK H. CORKERY
New Horizons spacecraft controllers are calculating whether to tweak the spacecraft's trajectory this week, to adjust its flight path toward Pluto during a fling past Jupiter, following a flawless Jan. 19 Atlas V launch. The NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) spacecraft...

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