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Sep 11

MESSENGER navigates second hot season and performs third orbit-correction maneuver

Source: MESSENGER


Image credit: NASA/MESSENGER

Last Wednesday, the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four “hot seasons” expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., successfully executed a maneuver to adjust the spacecraft’s trajectory. (read more)

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