Status Report

New Horizons Starts Optical Navigation Campaign

By SpaceRef Editor
January 27, 2015
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New Horizons Starts Optical Navigation Campaign

The LORRI camera on New Horizons has started its first imaging campaign of encounter operations and is performing as scheduled. These images are taken for optical navigation, which will help us reduce our predicted aim point errors from a few thousand to a few hundred kilometers as we approach Pluto.

For more news and info visit the New Horizons website: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php

SpaceRef staff editor.