Done with Pluto, New Horizons will drift in endless sea of space
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dear red,
IF, the only article that you can quote is that one, and nothing from any of the NASA briefings of last week, and you cannot sit still for the one coming this Friday, you are terribly misinformed.
The mission of the New Horizons space probe has been designed to continue gathering information from Pluto and its moons through the summer of 2016.
All these space probes mentioned in that article are not ‘drifting’, which means they are just floating, with no trajectory, no set course, like a kid’s balloon in the air.
They are all travelling at over 28,000 miles an hour. They have been plotted to a particular course, and yes, designed to go outside our Solar system. The radioisotope powerplant has a 30 year life span, so there will be many years of information left.