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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts) Mon Jul 6, 2015, 09:13 PM Jul 2015

Great relief! "New Horizons: Pluto probe 'on course' for flyby"

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33421208

"New Horizons lost very little science data when it went into "safe mode" at the weekend, the mission team says.

Nasa's Pluto probe experienced a fault on Saturday that put it temporarily out of contact with the Earth, as it speeds towards a flyby next week.

Principal investigator Alan Stern said that about 30 observations of the dwarf planet were missed as a consequence of the hiccup.

This represents "far less than 1%" of the top science about to come back.

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Yay! This is great news for those of us with our heads in the stars...and planets!