New Horizons wakes to chart the solar system's icy frontier
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NASA’s New Horizons has awakened from its longest sleep, about 5.9 billion miles from Earth, to resume transmitting data from the Kuiper Belt and continue studying Pluto, Arrokoth, and distant icy bodies. Launched in 2006, the probe’s historic Pluto flyby in 2015 and subsequent Kuiper Belt observations are helping scientists understand how planets form. The spacecraft remains healthy and, if it stays that way, could extend its mission toward interstellar space beyond 2029 as it keeps gathering valuable outer-solar-system data.
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