Tuesday 9 December 2014

New Horizons Wakes Up on Pluto's Doorstep

OUTER PLANETS
New Horizons Wakes Up on Pluto's Doorstep
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 09, 2014 - After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles -the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation on Dec. 6th for its long-awaited 2015 encounter with the Pluto system. Operators at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., confirmed at 9:53 p.m. (EST) that New Hor ... more


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