New Horizons probe healthy after hiccup: NASA

New Horizons probe healthy after hiccup: NASA
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NASA said its New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and operating normally after just over 24 hours in a protective \"safe mode\" -- the result of a command-loading error that occurred this week.

​Washington: NASA said its New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and operating normally after just over 24 hours in a protective "safe mode" -- the result of a command-loading error that occurred this week.

The spacecraft is designed to automatically transition to safe mode under certain anomalous conditions to protect itself from harm.

In safe mode, the spacecraft suspends its timeline of activities and keeps its antenna pointed toward Earth to listen for instructions from the Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

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