LIVE: NASA to hold briefing on New Horizons journey to Pluto

NASA is due to hold a briefing on the New Horizons journey to Pluto at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland on Friday. The New Horizons probe passed within 12,500 kilometers of Pluto’s surface on July 14, after it traveled for 10 years and three billion miles. As the probe came closer to the dwarf planet, it went radio silent. New Horizons’ myriad sensors and images captured Pluto’s data during a few hours. A radio link was re-established on Wednesday morning and started to str