The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2018
Hibernation season is over for NASA’s New Horizons probe.
Hibernation season is over for NASA’s New Horizons probe.
New Horizons will soon find out what’s up with MU69.
NASA would like people to help name the object MU69 that the New Horizons’ team has discovered.
NASA’s New Horizons space probe has been busy the past few years. After traveling roughly 4.67 billion miles to reach the dwarf planet Pluto’s system in July of 2015, the spacecraft is now moving on to its next target, an object discovered in the Kuiper Belt by the Hubble Space Telescope in June of 2014 and dubbed 2014 MU69.