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Peace Patriot

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18. Just want to make one correction, re New Horizon's fuel reserves.

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 01:57 AM

Jul 2015

Apparently it only has enough fuel (whatever the fuel is--I don't know) to be directed to two or so other objects in the Kuiper Belt. THEN it will be on a trajectory out of the Solar System, for which it wouldn't need fuel (once it got boosted). I don't know how the telemetry is powered, nor for how long. So I don't know if it will continue to send information all the way out of the Solar System, like Viking.

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