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  NASA New Horizons spacecraft set to visit most distant object ever

  Oct 08, 2018, 12:37 PM IST

  New Horizons itself was about 6.35 billion kilometres from home when it carried out on Wednesday's trajectory correction maneuver (TCM), the farthest course-correction ever performed.

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  NASA probe wakes up for Pluto encounter

  World | Dec 07, 2014, 03:00 PM IST

  Washington: A NASA probe launched eight years ago to explore Pluto has woken up from its last hibernation in deep space and is now preparing to take first detailed images of the dwarf planet's surface