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6. New Horizons: Nasa probe survives flyby of Ultima Thule
Wed Jan 2, 2019, 07:41 AM
Jan 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46729898

New Horizons: Nasa probe survives flyby of Ultima Thule

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent

1 January 2019

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Controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland greeted the reception of the signal with cheers and applause.

"We have a healthy spacecraft," announced Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman. "We've just accomplished the most distant flyby."

This first radio message contained only engineering information on the status of the spacecraft, but it included confirmation that New Horizons executed its autonomous flyby observations as instructed and that the probe's onboard memory was full.
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