06 June 2018
New Horizons wakes up ready for next flyby
... and Roman literature to describe “the place located furthest north.” The name is befitting of its new target as Ultima Thule orbits a billion miles beyond Pluto, making it the farthest planetary encounter in history and the most primitive...
02 January 2019
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes history...again!
... Horizons spacecraft makes history, again, by getting within 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles) of the icy world known as Ultima Thule; a 30 kilometre remnant from the birth of our solar system. At over 6.5 billion kilometres (4 billion miles) away from...
