Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 1, 2016 #1 Share Posted July 1, 2016 New Horizons Receives Mission Extension to Kuiper Belt, Dawn to Remain at Ceres Quote Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons mission has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69. The spacecraft’s planned rendezvous with the ancient object – considered one of the early building blocks of the solar system -- is Jan. 1, 2019. “The New Horizons mission to Pluto exceeded our expectations and even today the data from the spacecraft continue to surprise,” said NASA’s Director of Planetary Science Jim Green. “We’re excited to continue onward into the dark depths of the outer solar system to a science target that wasn’t even discovered when the spacecraft launched.” Read more: NASA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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