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Glitch Halts New Horizons Operations As It Nears Pluto

Posted by samzenpus on from the phone-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes: NASA says their New Horizons probe suffered a temporary communication breakdown on Saturday, 10 days before it's supposed to fly past Pluto. The mission team is working to restore normal communications. "Full recovery is expected to take from one to several days," NASA wrote in a status report on Saturday. "New Horizons will be temporarily unable to collect science data during that time."

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  1. Oh, PLEASE no... by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has been going so well for such a long time. It will be absolutely heartbreaking if the probe is incapacitated just during the flyby window.

  2. Re:From Unmannedspaceflight.com by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I'll add more that he doesn't make (though his are best!): it's ridiculous to call something a "dwarf X" and then say that that doesn't count as an "X".

    Is a toy car actually a car? Is a stuffed animal actually an animal?

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    Ezekiel 23:20