One of the longest communications distances has again been activated as New Horizons was woken up for an encounter with a Kuiper Belt object called Ultima Thule. Ultima Thule, which freely translates to “Extreme North” and has an official designation of (486958) 2014 MU69, is an object that was found ...
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