How to Navigate a Spacecraft to Pluto

How was New Horizons, a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, able to fly more than three billion miles to navigate to and fly past Pluto, capturing spectacular images of the dwarf planet along the way? 

Learn more: Developing Optical Navigation Software for NASA’s New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx, and Lucy Missions

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