New Horizons completes record-setting Kuiper Belt targeting maneuvers
Monday, November 9, 2015 - 04:33
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting maneuvers that set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69. This ancient body in the Kuiper Belt is more than a billion miles beyond Pluto; New Horizons will explore it if NASA approves an extended mission.