NASA's New Horizons mission has been officially extended and it will further explore the Kuiper Belt throughout the 2020s.
mission’s time in the Kuiper Belt, where it will look for an object to orbit and study. The spacecraft was originally sent out to, but then NASA planned to move it from the Planetary Science Division to the Heliophysics Division, where it would focus all its efforts on studying the Sun.Privacy Notice.
“Following a senior review and feedback from a diverse set of stakeholders, NASA will continue the NASA New Horizons mission focus on multidisciplinary science,” Nicola Fox, associate administrator of science at NASA,mission focus on multidisciplinary science. Its extended operations will continue until the spacecraft exits the Kuiper Belt, expected in 2028-2029.The New Horizons mission is expected to continue its work in the Kuiper Belt while also studying and collecting heliophysics data.
NASA proposed extending the New Horizons mission to act as a planetary mission until 2024, and then swapping it completely to heliophysics studies in 2025. However, the science community banded together to push back on the proposal, leading to the new directive we’ve just seen announced.
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