Final Pre-Pluto Annual Checkout Begins
Laurel MD (SPX) Jun 18, 2014 - Horizons' annual checkout - its eighth since launch in 2006 and last before next year's rendezvous with Pluto - kicks off this week with some onboard subsystem housekeeping and navigation-tracking tasks. But the pace picks up soon enough with a slate of operations that carries through most of the summer. Early on June 15, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory i ... more

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