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Video: New Horizons phone home will confirm health of spacecraft

January 1, 2019 Spaceflight Now

New Horizons Mission Operations Manager (MOM) Alice Bowman describes how New Horizons will turn to Earth and ‘phone home’ to confirm if the flyby of Ultima Thule was a success.

Video: Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager, previews Ultima Thule flyby (members only)

December 30, 2018 Stephen Clark

New Horizons’s mission operations manager Alice Bowman previews the spacecraft’s New Year’s Day encounter with Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt, a distant zone of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune.