Orbit Adjustment
Controllers have adjusted the orbit of China’s Chang’e 1 lunar probe to shorten the time it will spend in darkness during an eclipse on Feb. 21. By raising the 200-km. orbit by 2 km. on Jan. 27, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center reduced the spacecraft’s expected period without sunlight to 2 hr...
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