New Horizons Anomaly Identified; Science Resumes on Tuesday
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
New Horizons controllers plan to resume collecting data at Pluto on Tuesday, after identifying the culprit in a July 4 automatic shutdown as a subtle timing flaw as a command sequence was being uploaded to prepare for closest approach on July 14. “Originally planned” science operations will pick up...
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