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July 03, 2015

New Horizons 'Speeds Up' on Final Approach to Pluto
Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2015
With just two weeks to go before its historic July 14 flight past Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft tapped the accelerator late last night and tweaked its path toward the Pluto system. The 23-second thruster burst was the third and final planned targeting maneuver of New Horizons' approach phase to Pluto; it was also the smallest of the nine course corrections since New Horizons launched in January 2006. It bumped the spacecraft's velocity by just 27 centimeters per second - about one-half mil ... read more

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