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Pluto Spacecraft Temporarily Loses Contact with Earth


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New Horizons (artist's impression)

An artist's impression of the NASA probe.

Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Ten days before its historic flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft lost contact with mission control, for unknown reasons, for an hour and 21 minutes on 4 July.

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