Saturday, 20 February 2010

Stardust-NExT Spacecraft Fires Engines to Delay Arrival at Comet

NASA's Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on Feb. 17 to purposely delay its arrival at comet Tempel 1 by 8 hours 21 minutes.

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