New Horizons Station 14 July 2015 at a speed of about 14 kilometers per second, close to Pluto, the minimum distance – 12.5 thousand kilometers. At this time came the bulk of the research mission, the bulk of data which began to enter NASA on September 5. Total to send tens of gigabytes of data will take about a year.
It is expected that in 2019 the station will reach its next goal – the planetoid 2014 MU69, at a distance of 1.6 billion kilometers from Pluto in the Kuiper belt. The mission of New Horizons is expected to complete in mid-2020s.
In the gallery “Heathcliff!” – Images of Pluto and its satellites, the station received New Horizons.
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