[tas-list] FW: Aerojet Rocketdyne and Ultima Thule
- From: "charles jacobson" <jacobsonc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:29:49 -0800
Check this out! Celestial navigation PLUS!! Chuck J
From: Young, Ken <Kenneth.Young@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 8:03 AM
To: charles jacobson <jacobsonc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ken Young <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Aerojet Rocketdyne and Ultima Thule
Charles,
You might want to share with your club(s). On New Year's day, "New
Horizons" will pass by Ultima Thule. According to the article linked below,
New Horizons just used our propulsion system to do trajectory correction
maneuver - the most distant ever conducted by a spacecraft.
https://www.space.com/42679-new-horizons-ultima-thule-photo.html ;
The probe remains on course to cruise within just 2,200 miles (3,500 km) of
Ultima Thule (which is officially known as 2014 MU69) at 12:33 a.m. EST
(0533 GMT) on Jan. 1. That's more than three times closer than New Horizons
got to Pluto during the spacecraft's epic flyby of the dwarf planet on July
14, 2015.
Regards,
Ken
Kenneth Young
General Manager, Redmond Operations
Aerojet Rocketdyne
11411 139th Place NE
Redmond, WA 98052-2025
(425) 882-5705 (o)
(206) 715-2487 (c)
Kenneth.Young@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Kenneth.Young@xxxxxxxxxx>
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