Mars Odyssey Fine-tunes Flight Path

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Odyssey at July 2, 2001 12:00 PM

NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft fine-tuned its flight path for arrival at Mars in October as it performed its second trajectory correction maneuver this morning. Odyssey fired its thrusters for 23 seconds at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time, which changed the spacecraft’s velocity by 0.9 meters per second (about 2 miles per hour).