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A NASA Spacecraft Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System. Its Instruments May Be Shut Off Due To Lack Of Funding
The agency withheld $2 million a year for the instruments, ending a continuous measure of the Sun’s charged-particle wind.
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A NASA Spacecraft Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System. Its Instruments May Be Shut Off Due To Lack Of Funding
New Horizons' instruments may be shut off before it reaches the Solar System's "termination shock", despite it being fully functional likely into the 2050s.
·Sudbury, United Kingdom
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments next month over lack of funding | The spacecraft is in perfect health and could operate until 2050, but funding being withheld risks “incalculable loss” of data as the spacecraft nears the outer edge of the Solar System
·Washington, United States
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New Horizons has been researching the edge of the solar system since their fly-by at Pluto. Because promised money does not flow, there is a threat of switching off instruments.
·Germany
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Leaning Left2Leaning Right0Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Left
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources lean Left
67% Left
L 67%
C 33%
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