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Old December 20th, 2018 #2
Ray Allan
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After the encounter with 2014_MU69 Ultima Thule, New Horizons will hopefully pass near another Kuiper Belt Object. The spacecraft's radioisotope thermoelectric generator is expected to provide power until the mid-2030s, so maybe NASA can keep NH operating long enough to reach interstellar space like the Voyager probes have done and make additional scientific observations there. At that point, it would be cool if NH can turn its camera back at our solar system and take another "Family Portrait" like Voyager 1 did back in 1990.
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