LOCAL : Voyager Given Nudge for Neptune
From Times Wire Services
Voyager 2’s electronic brain fired small rocket thrusters today, nudging the spacecraft to one side slightly in a final course correction that sets the stage for Thursday’s close encounter with Neptune.
A series of four small rocket firings, the final such maneuver ever planned for Voyager 2, began around 4:09 a.m. as the probe streaked toward Neptune at nearly 38,000 m.p.h.
“Everything started on time. It looks good,” an engineer said at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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