NASA rang in the new year awaiting the flyby of a spacecraft near an icy planetary body roughly 1 billion miles away from Pluto. The…
NASA rang in the new year awaiting the flyby of a spacecraft near an icy planetary body roughly 1 billion miles away from Pluto.
The spacecraft New Horizons was expected to complete its flyby of Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. on January 1, according to NASA. But because the spacecraft is so far away, NASA is still awaiting confirmation it survived the trip.
Ultima Thule sits in the Kuiper Belt, which is about 4 billion miles away from Earth.
