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NASA's Pluto probe will spend 'days' recovering from a glitch
The mission team believes it could take up to "several days" to get back to normal due to the distance from Earth -- and that's slightly worrying when the mission's all-important Pluto flyby should take place on July 14th. While there's a good chance that New Horizons will be back to normal by the time it's close to the dwarf planet, it's clear that every day of downtime will matter.
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It would really suck if the probe misses it's shot to get some really good data from pluto. I'm really excited to see what comes from it.
I've been looking forward to this for months. I can only image how stressed the team is waiting for the recovery.
Same here..Yeah, they must really be upset about this turn of events.