Day: November 13, 2009

The New Horizons spacecraft on it’s way to Pluto was scheduled to get a wake-up call on November 9 and then spend 10 days running system tests and diagnostics.  The trip to Pluto is so long (in spite of the craft’s record speed of about 23 km/sec) that it spends much of its time in …

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