The decision to expand New Horizons' mission to explore a potential object in the Kuiper Belt, and not just the Sun, comes as a great relief to scientists.
A famous NASA spacecraft will continue exploring the outer reaches of the solar system thanks to an extended lifeline. This decision overturns NASA’s earlier proposal to change the mission’s course and transfer it to a different division.
In January 2022, NASA put together a review panel to go over a proposal by the mission’s science team to extend it by an additional three years. The space agency decided to extend the mission for two years instead and fund New Horizons as a planetary mission until 2024, while considering funding it as a heliophysics mission beginning in 2025.
The new, extended mission will be primarily funded by NASA’s Planetary Science Division and jointly managed by NASA’s Heliophysics and Planetary Science Divisions, the space agency wrote.The Kuiper Belt is filled with hundreds of millions of objects, of which New Horizons has so far explored 37. The spacecraft was also the. The New Horizons team is currently looking for a second flyby object, and planning observations of Saturn and its moons.
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