Keith’s note: Those of you in the space community know that NASA Science is facing an immense budget cut. Dozens of missions have been cancelled and many missions that are […]
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NASA Wants To Turn New Horizons Off
Keith’s note: A story is now widely circulating within the planetary science community that NASA SMD has asked for cost estimates to put the New Horizons spacecraft into hibernation. This […]
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NASA Prefers Old Space Droids Over New Space Droids
Keith’s note: The Twin Voyagers are amazing envoys. 46 years after leaving Earth with rudimentary electronics that are mostly dead they are still sending data back to Earth from Interstellar […]
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Space Leaders Sign Letter Protesting Changes In New Horizons’ Mission
Keith’s note: Recently I posted an item “There May Be A Second Kuiper Belt And New Horizons Is Headed There“ that noted “In a meeting today of the NASA New […]
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Hijacking New Horizons
Keith’s note: Last week I posted some fascinating news – our solar system may actually have a second Kuiper Belt. The news originated from a New Horizons Science Team meeting. […]
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There May Be A Second Kuiper Belt And New Horizons Is Headed There
Keith’s note: “In a meeting today of the NASA New Horizons Science Team a presentation strongly suggests that our solar system actually has a second Kuiper Belt. And New Horizons […]
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New Horizons Phones Home
New Horizons Successfully Explores Ultima Thule “Signals confirming the spacecraft is healthy and had filled its digital recorders with science data on Ultima Thule reached the mission operations center at […]
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Pale Blue Dot 2.0?
Question: "Can @NASANewHorizons reproduce the famous "Pale Blue dot" image? @AlanStern: Yes we think we can but there is a risk of burning the cameras out – permanently – so […]
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New Horizons Flyby Of Ultima Thule
Media Briefings, Online Coverage of Ultima Thule Flyby “NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on track to perform the farthest flyby in history, when it zips past a Kuiper Belt object […]
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The Government Shutdown And Ultima Thule
If the government shutdown happens and lasts through the holidays there's not going to be very much PR from @NASA for the @NASANewsHorizons thing with #UltimaThule — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) […]