NASA kicked off the new year with a midnight flyby of the most distant Solar System object ever visited by a manmade spacecraft. New Horizons passed within a few thousand miles of the oblong space rock known as Ultima Thule just after the calendar page turned to 2019 on the East Coast, and it’s a huge achievement for the space agency and astronomy community in general.
Unfortunately, NASA has very little to show for its accomplishment, at least right now.
NASA’s live stream of the event was very informative, providing details about the mission and animations to show where the spacecraft was in relation to Ultima Thule. We did not, however, get a good look at Ultima Thule itself or even confirmation that the mission was a success, so now we wait.
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NASA’s New Horizons zoomed past Ultima Thule, and now we wait originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 11:00:04 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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