NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft awakens from hibernation in good health – NASA Science0

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• July 7, 2026

After its longest hibernation period of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting scientific data collected in the distant Kuiper Belt, far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New Horizons,