A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...
In July 2016, New Horizons spotted Quaoar, a distant Kuiper Belt object measuring 690 miles (1,110 km) across. Flyby New Horizons Pluto Solar System Spacecraft ... will end up in orbit around ...
Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto ...
When New Horizons does enter terminal shock, it will do so multiple times over several days, as the shockwave moves back and forth over the spacecraft. This kind of data will be paramount in ...
Additionally, putting New Horizons into hibernation frees up team members from working on telemetry and monitoring the spacecraft’s health, letting more of the team help plan the flyby and the ...
"The one thing I wish we had beefed up on this spacecraft is the antenna to send back the data a little quicker," Fran Bagel, a New Horizons co-investigator, said during an American Museum of ...
it could damage the spacecraft irreparably.” The weeks leading up to the Pluto encounter will be punctuated with tense analyses of the newest images from New Horizons. As Tombaugh did eight ...