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...