NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter

Re:NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter by FireRabbit on Sunday December 07, 2014 @03:13AM (#8711646)

2015 is shaping up to be a great year. New Horizons visits Pluto and the Dawn probe visits Ceres. Two dwarf planets in one year, when we've never visited a single one before.

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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter by InclinedPlane on Sunday December 07, 2014 @07:33AM (#8711978)

Don't forget Rosetta continuing operations around comet 47P while it transitions into being an active comet.

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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter by bmiranda on Sunday December 07, 2014 @01:08PM (#8712973)

Also don't forget Japan's Akatsuki space probe which will will attempt to insert itself in orbit around Venus in November.

It "missed" in 2010 due to an engine failure and had to wait 5 years for another attempt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_%28spacecraft%29

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