NASA New Horizons Status Report 30 January 2006

All–

We’re on our way to the Pluto aim point! The 6% under-burn was very much
like on TCM-1A, so the prop and GNC teams feel they have calibrated well
now and future burns will be right on the money. Of course, when my kids get
a 94 out of 100 on a test, I don’t complain about the 6 points they lost,
and the same applies to New Horizons: TCM-1A and 1B were successful. Go
New Horizons!

-Alan

ps. By the way, Yanping and the mission design team believe TCM-1B, at 13.3
m/s, is likely the biggest TCM we will execute until we at Pluto. Amazing.