“NASA New Horizons-explorer ‘awake’ for the journey to Pluto”

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NASA has successfully in space exploration New Horizons is activated again. The satellite is in the vicinity of the miniplaneet Pluto, which is expected to be about little more than 200 days will be achieved. New Horizons was nearly nine years ago launched.

According to the space agency have operators at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University with success commands received confirming that the New Horizons-space explorer from its sleep mode. The signal was about 4.5 hours on the road: the satellite is now more than 4.6 billion kilometres from the earth. The ultimate goal of New Horizons is to study Pluto and its moons.

NASA’s space exploration should, if everything runs smoothly, in July next year at Pluto arrive. On July 14, would New Horizons closest to the miniplaneet, making that day the best photos shot should be. Observing the dwarf planet and its moons will begin, however, already on January 15. In the coming weeks, the research team on earth to view parts or all of the New Horizons function properly.

The space exploration New Horizons in January 2006 launched, which he is now almost nine years on the road. In about two-thirds of that time the systems were in sleep mode, to wear and tear and system failure prevent.