Nasa Loses Contact With New Horizons; Pluto Spacecraft Enters 'safe Mode'

Ten days before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was due to make its closest approach to Pluto, the space agency reports that at 1:54 PM EDT on the afternoon of July 4th local U.S. time, it lost contact with the $700 million unmanned flyby mission for more than an hour and [...]

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