NASA's New Horizons mission and its team of scientists continue to face a threat of shutdown from NASA without knowing why.
New Horizons is doing science every day as it passes through a never-before-explored region of the Solar System. As wea 2022 NASA Senior Review panel praised the mission’s accomplishments. This was in response to a request for ongoing funding from the New Horizons team. The panel noted that, “This is likely the only spacecraft humans will send through the outer Solar System for at least 20-30 years. The investigations proposed are strengthened by the unique position of this asset.
Such a move would be unprecedented. It’s also puzzling because the mission is already doing heliophysics in the Belt along with all other planned science observations. In fact, in September, theNew Horizons current path as of August 28, 2023. Courtesy: New Horizons Web site.These NASA plans are disappointing enough that they spurred a letter of protest from 25 prominent planetary scientists and former NASA officials.
Stern recently pointed out that, despite the letter from the 25 community leaders, plus other appeals and advisory group recommendations to continue the New Horizons Kuiper Belt mission, his team has heard no sign of relief on NASA’s plans to terminate the exploration of the Kuiper Belt by New Horizons. SMD’s director of planetary sciences division director Lori Glaze has also mentioned simply putting the spacecraft in hibernation.
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