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NASA’s New Horizons begins intensive data downlink phase

Submit on Sunday, September 6th, 2015 22:57

Seven weeks after New Horizons sped past the Pluto system to study Pluto and its moons, the mission team will begin intensive downlinking of the tens of gigabits of data the spacecraft collected and stored on its digital recorders. The entire downlink will be taking about one year to complete.

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