What you need to know about the Pluto flyby
The WireJuly 14, 2015 In under seven hours, the NASA New Horizons space probe will flyby Pluto at 49,900 km per hour, from a distance of 12,500 km. It’s what the probe set out to do when it was launc…
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Probe encounters glitch 10 days ahead of historic rendezvous with Pluto
The Wire July 6, 2015 In the last mile of its 3,464-day journey and only ten days away from a historic rendezvous with the dwarf planet Pluto, the New Horizons probe experienced an anomaly on July 4…
Pluto-bound probe takes first colour images of the dwarf planet and its moon
The Wire June 22, 2015 It may not look like much, but this heavily pixelated GIF image is cause for celebration. It effectively cost a robotic space probe more than nine years of travel and $600 mill…
Why you should care about the New Horizons probe nearing Pluto
The Wire May 29, 2015 https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/603533857523044352 Alex Parker is a planetary astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute, Texas, and he posted his tweet just as I st…