NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for the Final Time, Gets Ready for Pluto Encounter

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was awakened from its electronic hibernation earlier this week, in order to begin final preparations for the start of its historic long-range Pluto encounter operations in January 2015. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Everything has to come to an end eventually, as the saying goes and [...]