New Horizons spacecraft 'stays the course' for Pluto system encounter
Friday, June 21, 2013 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
Following an intense 18 month study to determine if NASA's New Horizons spacecraft faced potentially destructive impact hazards during its planned 2015 flyby of the Pluto binary planet system, the mission team has decided to 'stay the course' – and stick with the originally planned trajectory because the danger posed by dust and debris is much less than feared.