The Interstellar Travel

New Horizons Spacecraft out of Hibernation mode Speeding through the outer space of our Solar system, New Horizons spacecraft has awakened after its five and half months of hibernation, ready for its second act after its 2015 flyby of Pluto. This spacecraft is 3.8 billion light years away from Earth and has been sending photographs and information about our beloved planet, Pluto. New horizons woke up with the on-board timer late Monday, but the radio signals confirms that it took six hours to reach the   Earth that the New horizon has emerged, hence completing journey   at light speed   at 2.12am   EDT, Tuesday. Alice Bowman, the New Horizons operation manager confirmed that the spacecraft has been functioning normally and efficiently. Back in 2015, the spacecraft had sent stunning images of the Pluto surface like vast mountain ranges, cryovolcanoes, glaciers, methane snow and other surprising geographic activity. New Horizons is now on a n...

New Horizons spacecraft is launched with primary mission to flyby Pluto and its moons and study them. But before we get into this blog, read the previous blog about the planet Pluto and get an overall idea about the planet. Now that you have read about Pluto’s history, orbit and composition let’s get into this NASA’s New Frontiers Program- New Horizons.   New Horizon is space probe which was launched on January 19, 2006.It is engineered by Johns HopkinsUniversity   Applied Physics Laboratory  (APL) and the  Southwest ResearchInstitute  (SwRI), with a team led by  S. Alan Stern . The name “New Horizons” was derived from Pluto’s moons, Nix and Hydra. The first letters of their names, N and H are initials of New Horizons. MISSION: The primary mission of New Horizons spacecraft is to study Pluto and study one or more Kuiper belt objects.   Originally the mission was to explore the undiscovered planets and objects in the solar system. Thi...