TORONTO – It’s been a long voyage, but a Pluto-bound spacecraft has passed another milestone just a year from reaching its final destination.
The New Horizons spacecraft crossed the orbit of Neptune, the final major crossing on its way to tiny Pluto, due to arrive on July 14, 2015.
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The spacecraft reached Neptune’s orbit on Monday, exactly 25 years to the day the historic Voyager spacecraft encountered the giant blue planet.
As of Monday, New Horizons was about four billion kilometres from Earth – almost 27 times the distance between Earth and the sun.
New Horizons launched in January 2006.
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