NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of 4 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.
The 4 propulsive maneuvers were the most distant trajectory corrections ever performed by any spacecraft...
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