NASA Awakens New Horizons Spacecraft as It Heads Towards "Ultima Thule" --Outermost Reaches of Our Solar System

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is back "awake" and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history - a New Year's Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. The 165-day hibernation that ended June 4 was...