NASA reports that its New Horizons spacecraft has successfully emerged from its longest hibernation period, lasting nearly a year. After the hibernation, flight controllers confirm the spacecraft is in good health and prepared to resume operations focused on the distant Kuiper Belt—an area of space beyond Pluto. NASA notes that controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, perform status checks and verify the spacecraft’s condition following the extended low-power period. With the spacecraft awake, New Horizons is set to begin transmitting science data it collected during the hibernation. The data are associated with observations of the Kuiper Belt, which lies far from Earth and is being studied to better understand small bodies and conditions in the outer solar system. Both sources describe the wake-up outcome in similar terms: the spacecraft is functioning properly, and the next phase is data transmission of the gathered scientific measurements.
New Horizons wakes from nearly a yearlong hibernation, ready to transmit Kuiper Belt data
NASA reports that its New Horizons spacecraft has successfully emerged from its longest hibernation period, lasting nearly a year. After the hibernation, flight controllers confirm the spacecraft is i...
- New Horizons completes its longest hibernation period, lasting nearly a year.
- NASA states the spacecraft wakes in good health.
- Flight controllers confirm the status at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
- New Horizons is ready to begin transmitting science data it collected during hibernation.
- The transmitted data relate to the distant Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto.
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto.
2 hours agoFollowing its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed New Horizons, […]
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