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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft awakens for encounter

Submit on Sunday, December 7th, 2014 22:56

After a voyage of nearly nine years and 4.8 billion kilometers – the farthest any space mission has ever travelled to reach its primary target – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation for its 2015 encounter with the Pluto system.

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