Re:New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule
by dpflan on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @11:41AM
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The timing is sensational: humanity begins 2019 with an astronomical milestone event.
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Another one would be the Chinese landing their craft on the far side of the moon. No confirmed date, but within the next couple of days.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/01/680542096/chinas-lunar-lander...
Also, asteroid sample-return mission Osiris-REX acheived orbital insertion around its asteroid target.
Which was Really Hard, because that is a tiny object to use as a gravitational anchor. About the mass of a terrestrial mountain. The precision is incredible.