22.04.2016 - 17:49 [ SpaceFlight Insider ]

New Horizons mission extension submitted to NASA; images of Pluto’s hazes show new detail

As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reached the halfway mark in sending back data from last July’s Pluto flyby, members of the mission team formally submitted an extended mission proposal to NASA outlining a close flyby of a small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) on New Year’s Day 2019 and other observations in the outer Solar System.