'We need to finish the Kuiper Belt' after 'finally' getting a spacecraft there, the New Horizons principal investigator said.
NASA's New Horizons mission is in limbo as the space agency and scientists debate the future of the mission.
The focus would be "only [on] things that can be done by dint of being at that great distance or in the Kuiper Belt," Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, said at a meeting of the Outer Planets Assessment Group on May 3, according to aHowever, NASA only approved it for two years. It opted to fund New Horizons through the fiscal year of 2024 before having the mission compete in a separate senior review for the heliophysics division for the fiscal year of 2025 and beyond.
. New Horizons would be able to observe KBOs from much closer and from angles not possible from Earth. Still, the agency said it didn't believe these observations would provide added value compared to observations from ground-based observatories.The New Horizons science team disputes this assessment, however. "We think that this is shortsighted," Stern said during the OPAG meeting.
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