NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Record 321-Day Hibernation in Kuiper Belt
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Patricia Talbert
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully awakened from its longest-ever hibernation period of 321 days. The spacecraft, now approximately 5.9 billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper Belt, is in good health and ready to transmit science data gathered during its hibernation. Flight controllers at Johns Hopkins APL confirmed the wake-up on June 23, with the spacecraft acting on stored commands uplinked last July.
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· 3 pulledFollowing its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto.
On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed New Horizons, acting on stored commands uplinked to its main computer last July, had safely awakened from a 321‑day hibernation period that began Aug. 7.
With the spacecraft now approximately 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth
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