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NASA 'New Horizons' mission - Society for Popular Astronomy

Hi everyone, new member here. NASA's probe to pluto enters interplanetary cruise February next year. Does anyone know how fast it will be ...

After Nine Years in Space, NASA's Pluto Probe Is About to Wake Up

​Nearly nine years ago, NASA sent its ​New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto. On Saturday, after all that time in transit, it will come out of ...

NASA spacecraft flies by Pluto after nine-year, three-billion-mile trip

More than nine years after its launch, a US spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 3 billion-mile (4.88 billion km) journey to ...

NASA's New Horizons data from Pluto flyby will be 'gift for the ages'

The team guiding the New Horizons spacecraft has been able to "nail its position very precisely," guaranteeing the probe will capture a flood of data about ...

Exploration of Pluto - Wikipedia

The exploration of Pluto began with the arrival of the New Horizons probe in July 2015, though proposals for such a mission had been studied for many ...

New Horizon probe back online after 9 year journey to Pluto

Nine years and three billion miles later, NASA's New Horizon probe awoke once it neared a strip close to Pluto. The probe was kept in ...

Pluto revealed: New Horizons' historic flyby, five years later

The NASA spacecraft's nine-day flyby of Pluto in 2015 hauled in a dataset that scientists are still mining. By Mark Zastrow | Published: July 14 ...

NASA Nears End Of Nine-Year Mission To Pluto | US News

The Pluto probe is making its way towards the solar system's outer frontier - the longest trip any spacecraft has made from Earth.

Spacecraft Nears Pluto After Nine-Year Trip - Yahoo News UK

The Solar System's mysterious "ninth planet" is set to be revealed as never before. Nasa's spacecraft New Horizons is finally drawing close ...

New Horizons Probe Closes in on Pluto Showing Stunning Image

NASA's New Horizons probe is just five days and a few hours away from its closest approach to Pluto after a nine-and-a-half year journey.

New Horizons Pluto Flyby Coverage - NASA Spaceflight Forum

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft heads for New Year's encounter ...

Well before the Pluto flyby, the team requested observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope to look for possible targets of opportunity past ...

Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar ...

In 2006, the year New Horizons was launched, Pluto vanished from the list of planets and reappeared as a “dwarf planet.” That, of course, had ...

NASA Spacecraft Awakens From Slumber After Nine-Year, 3 Billion ...

NASA Spacecraft Awakens From Slumber After Nine-Year, 3 Billion-Mile Trip To Pluto ... But... it's still 162 million miles away from its ...

The Coolest Images Taken by NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft

The Pluto flyby, which occurred on July 14, 2015, remains the probe's crowning achievement. But scientists have taken full advantage of the NASA ...

Welcome To Pluto! - NASA SVS

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrives at Pluto after a 3-billion-mile journey. After traveling for nine ... year evolution of Earth's natural satellite. ||.

Nasa spacecraft flies by Pluto after nine-year, 3 billion mile trip - Mint

More than nine years after its launch, a US spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 4.88 billion km journey to the solar system's ...

NASA Spacecraft Flies Past Pluto After 10-Year Journey - NPR

On Tuesday morning, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft swooped past the surface of Pluto. The vast distance between Earth and Pluto means ...

New Horizons Pluto Mission update thread | TechPowerUp Forums

'These are the most recent high-resolution views of Pluto sent by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, including one showing the four mysterious dark ...