New Horizons on the way to 2014 MU690 – Interia

Today, November 8th (5:07)

After four successful maneuvers probe New Horizons is heading towards asteroid 2014 MU69 . Flight beside it will be about 1 January 2019 year.

Vision spacecraft New Horizons next PT1 (2014 MU69)

/ NASA

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July 14 probe New Horizons (NH) flew around the dwarf planet Pluto. It was the first to fly past the building and the symbolic end of the first phase of exploration of the solar system. The eyes of scientists published an unexpected sight: traces of continuous activity and in many places young (in the geological sense) surface of Pluto.
Within a few days of your trip probe sent a small amount of data, estimated at about 5 percent. entirety. From September through the next several or even several months NH will send all the data to Earth. Until then, scientists of the mission will have to make a difficult choice: which object fly past the probe for several years.
Within a few years the passage of NH next to Pluto intensive search for more targets for the probe. They found only three objects, labeled PT1, PT2 and PT3 (ang. Potential Target). In late August, NASA officially decided: New Horizons will fly to PT1, whose official designation is 2014 MU69. It was planned that the probe will perform a series of adjustments to the trajectory in late October and early November of this year. After the successful flight maneuvers would take place on January 1 2019.

Finally we planned four firing thrusters NH. The first one occurred on October 22, the second on October 25, the third on October 28 and the fourth and last November 4th. Further maneuvers are possible in the years 2016 – 2018. The trajectory correction will have a better relationship with the acquired orbit in 2014 MU69 and determining the condition of the spacecraft NH next to the asteroid. They are, however, much less maneuvers compared with the four that occurred at the end of October and at the beginning of November.
In less than four months NH dismissed from the Pluto more than 125 million kilometers. It is a distance of 25 million kilometers less than the average Earth-Sun distance. NH simultaneously transmits data from the flight, which increasingly amaze scientists. 2014 MU69 there are still about 1.45 billion kilometers …

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