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The KinetX Space Navigation and Flight Dynamics (SNAFD) navigation team, located in Simi
Valley, CA, is providing the navigation support for the ongoing MESSENGER mission to the planet
Mercury. MESSENGER is a sophisticated mission, slowly winding its way through the inner solar
system in a complex series of planetary fly—bys as it travels to its destination. By the time
it settles into orbit around Mercury in 2011, MESSENGER will have flown by the Earth once, Venus
twice, and will have even flown by Mercury three times before returning to stay! Mercury has
only been visited once before, when the Mariner 10 probe flew by the planet in the mid—1970's.
MESSENGER aims to pick up where Mariner left off, and conduct a more complete and subtle
investigation of the planet, including a full mapping of the planet's surface and an in—depth
investigation of its magnetic field. Click here
for more information on the mission. If you want to see the current track of the MESSENGER
spacecraft, click here.
The New Horizons spacecraft is the fastest object ever launched from Earth and is well on its way to Pluto and beyond, following its successful launch in January 2006. Our SNAFD team, already having great success guiding the MESSENGER space vehicle on its way to Mercury, is performing the mission navigation for New
Horizons' ten-year journey to the only remaining unexplored planet in our solar system, Pluto. In addition, the New Horizons spacecraft will blaze on to visit the Kuiper Belt and other objects which inhabit the furthest reaches of our solar system, carrying instruments which will return pictures and large-amounts of ground-breaking scientific data. New Horizons follows in the footsteps of the Voyager mission's historic Grand Tour of the outer solar system, traveling first to Jupiter where it receives a “sling shot” gravity assist enroute to Pluto. Click here to learn more about this fascinating mission. KinetX is proud to be a key partner in this successful effort. To see the rest of the New Horizons team members, click here.