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NASA Spacecraft slumbered For 9 Years activated For Its 2015 encounter by Sunymoore(m): 7:14pm On Dec 10, 2014
NASA’s New Horizons probe has activated
from hibernation in preparation for its 2015
encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft was
launched 9 years ago and had already
covered 3 Billion-Mile Trip toward Pluto but
it’s still 162 million miles away from its
destination.
Previously the new horizon has been
brought out of its hibernation mode 18
times since its launch atop an Atlas V
rocket in January 2006. The probe has
spent two-thirds of its time in space
hibernating to “save wear and tear on
spacecraft components and reduce the risk
of system failures,” according to NASA.
“Technically, this was routine, since the
wake-up was a procedure that we’d done
many times before,” said Glen Fountain,
New Horizons project manager, according
to NASA. “Symbolically, however, this is a
big deal. It means the start of our pre-
encounter operations.”

NASA team is now scrutinize the New
Horizon Spacecraft to examine whether the
devices and instruments are working
properly or not. The instruments include a
high-resolution telescopic camera and a
space-dust collector, NASA claimed.
Extended New Horizon’s mission is to
endeavor farther into the Kuiper Belt and
“examine one or two of the ancient, icy
mini-worlds in that vast region,” located a
billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit,
according to NASA.
“New Horizons is on a journey to a new
class of planets we’ve never seen, in a place
we’ve never been before,” says New
Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver,
according to NASA. “For decades we
thought Pluto was this odd little body on
the planetary outskirts; now we know it’s
really a gateway to an entire region of new
worlds in the Kuiper Belt, and New Horizons
is going to provide the first close-up look at
them.”
The inquest still has more than 162 million
miles to travel before it reaches the object
formerly known as a planet, but is expected
to be close enough to observe it in January,
and have its closest approach on July 14,
2015.

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