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All Systems Go for Planned Course Correction

Engineer wearing mask looking across room in mission control

September 30, 2020

Matt Smith, flight director for the second Mars 2020 mission trajectory correction maneuver (TCM-2), studying the screens at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. TCMs are a series of planned adjustments to put the rover on the correct path to land on Mars.

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