NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:18:06 +0000

Next month, NASA’s New Horizons mission plans to shut off two instruments that study the solar wind because of a lack of funding from the agency, mission scientists say. The move comes even as the spacecraft nears the outer edge of the Solar System, following a different route than its far-out predecessors, Voyager 1 and 2.

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding