Aviation Week 2016 Space Laureate Winner: New Horizons

Credit: Chris Zimmer
At first the images were blurry. New Horizons, a nuclear-powered probe the size of a baby-grand piano, had Pluto in its sights, but it was still too far away after more than nine years of travel to resolve the dwarf planet’s surface as anything more than the blobs of light and dark that have been...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.