New Horizons Maneuvers Toward Kuiper Belt Object

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
Controllers operating the New Horizons Pluto probe have confirmed that the nuclear-powered spacecraft completed the second of four maneuvers designed to take it past a lone Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) at the beginning of 2019. Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...

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