Tag Archives: New Horizons

Of small steps and giant leaps of collective imagination

Posted on July 19, 2015 by

The Wire July 16, 2015 We may all harbour a gene that moves us to explore and find new realms of experience but the physical act of discovery has become far removed from the first principles of physics. At 6.23 … Continue reading →

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Probe encounters glitch 10 days ahead of historic rendezvous with Pluto

Posted on July 11, 2015 by

The Wire July 6, 2015 In the last mile of its 3,464-day journey and only ten days away from a historic rendezvous with the dwarf planet Pluto, the New Horizons probe experienced an anomaly on July 4 and prompted the … Continue reading →

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Pluto-bound probe takes first colour images of the dwarf planet and its moon

Posted on June 22, 2015 by

The Wire June 22, 2015 It may not look like much, but this heavily pixelated GIF image is cause for celebration. It effectively cost a robotic space probe more than nine years of travel and $600 million in manufacturing and operational … Continue reading →

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Studying our primal horizons at the Kuiper belt

Posted on June 20, 2014 by

In August this year, the New Horizons spacecraft will cross into the region of space beyond Neptune’s orbit. It won’t be the first human object to go this far: the two Voyager space probes have already done that, and then Pioneer … Continue reading →

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