Does anyone know (and I mean *know*, not have a good guess or theory) why 12.5K km was chosen as the flyby distance for New Horizons?
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@Pinboard Yes. (though can play tricks with slewing whole spacecraft during exposure to track, but even that has limits) -
@_hroe I think I read an article about that in relation to Mars mapping. Thank you for your informative answer! Very untwitter-like! - Show replies
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