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House appropriators offer support to threatened NASA missions
11 Sep 2025 18:49 GMT
… specific funding, for several NASA missions slated for cancellation … expressing support for several NASA missions targeted for cancellation, … at Jupiter and the New Horizons mission in the Kuiper … support” language signals to NASA that it should fund continue …
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Ohio State Scientists Advance Focus on Nuclear Propulsion
11 Sep 2025 20:19 GMT
… in the case of the New Horizons spacecraft that flew by Pluto … by a grant provided by NASA.
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Pluto’s Moons and Everything You Didn’t Know You Want to Know About Them
11 Sep 2025 19:11 GMT
… scale. Photo taken by New Horizons on approach.
Ironically, the … remarkably rich geology
Before NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past … the path for the New Horizons spacecraft. Named Styx, Nix … the fleeting flyby of New Horizons, Persephone would spend years …
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Makemake's Secret Finally Revealed
10 Sep 2025 12:21 GMT
… thinner.
Pluto (captured here by New Horizons spacecraft) was the first trans … , Makemake was the second (Credit : NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied …
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Sexism in space
10 Sep 2025 08:34 GMT
… Salzman Sagan. Image from NASA Ames Research Centre via … Subheading
While senior figures at Nasa worried about causing offence, … unfamiliar with them.
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Nasa’s apparent aversion to … of humankind. The fifth, New Horizons, contained no message for …
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How an Interstellar Interloper Spurred Astronomers into Action
09 Sep 2025 14:13 GMT
… 4 times faster than the New Horizons probe sped past Pluto. It … had time scheduled on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) for …
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Ready for the next 'Oumuamua? Launching flyby missions to visiting interstellar comets is 'feasible and affordable,' study says
09 Sep 2025 10:26 GMT
… the principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission, which was … . (Image credit: Courtesy of NASA/ESA/UCLA… ;could be later proposed to NASA." (The SWRI statement … performance [for] missions that NASA has already flown," Tapley …
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In search of an everlasting battery
08 Sep 2025 19:58 GMT
… deep-space probes.
How is NASA using radioisotope batteries?
The … batteries isn’t new. NASA has relied on radioisotope power … fuel Voyager 1 and 2, New Horizons, Curiosity, and Perseverance. These … 433 years. In January, NASA’s Glenn Research Center partnered …
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1st known interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua is an 'exo-Pluto' — a completely new class of object, scientists say
08 Sep 2025 15:41 GMT
… . Observations made by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 … From left to right: 1. NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScl), … Frank Summers, 2. NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt ( … He pointed to observations from New Horizons that suggest our own Pluto …
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Lost in space? You might need just two stars to find your way
08 Sep 2025 00:38 GMT
… stars.
‘Navigation is essential’
NASA launched New Horizons in 2006 to explore Pluto … .
Interplanetary missions like New Horizons are tracked by NASA’s Deep Space Network … by comparing their positions from New Horizons’ vantage point with those from …