New Horizons Wakes from Deep-Space Slumber Near Pluto
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NASA's New Horizons, after roughly a year in hibernation about 5.9 billion miles from Earth, has awakened and is back online, with mission planners reporting all systems green as it resumes data gathering; it takes about nine hours for its radio signals to reach Earth, and the craft—launched in 2006 and famed for its 2015 Pluto images—continues exploring Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and the outer heliosphere.
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