{"id":173430,"date":"2023-10-04T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/nasa-extends-new-horizons-mission-through-late-2020s"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:24:14","slug":"nasa-extends-new-horizons-mission-through-late-2020s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/nasa-extends-new-horizons-mission-through-late-2020s","title":{"rendered":"NASA extends New Horizons mission through late 2020s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-extends-new-horizons-mission-through-late-2020s3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Horizons mission has a unique position in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16080-solar-system-planets.html\">solar system<\/a> to answer important questions about our heliosphere and provide extraordinary opportunities for multidisciplinary science for NASA and the scientific community,\u201d Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/new-horizons\/nasas-new-horizons-to-continue-exploring-outer-solar-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement on Friday<\/a>. (The heliosphere is the big bubble of magnetic fields and charged particles that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">the sun<\/a> blows around itself. Beyond it lies interstellar space.) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agency decided that it was best to extend operations for New Horizons until the spacecraft exits the Kuiper Belt, which is expected in 2028 through 2029,\u201d Fox added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe New Horizons mission has a unique position in our solar system to answer important questions about our heliosphere and provide extraordinary opportunities for multidisciplinary science for NASA and the scientific community,\u201d Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, said in a statement on Friday. (The heliosphere is the big bubble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}