NASA TV: New Horizons spacecraft survived its Pluto Flyby and is in good health.

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Lafiel said:

MohammadBadir said:
I haven't been reading too much into this. What's next for New Horizons? The Voyager treatment?

first they'll try a fly-by of another Kuiper Belt Object and then it will probably go into deepspace like the Voyagers, but due to a much smaller RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator) it won't be able to operate for as long as those probes

They've already identified a candidate object, which if confirmed, will have a flyby in 2019.

I watched the closest approach coverage live yesterday. Beautiful picture of the dwarf planet, and I'm looking forward to all the info that's going to follow. In the UK there'll be a Sky At Night TV programme on Monday 20th about the mission.

With this and the Philae lander waking up recently, there's a lot to look forward to over the coming months.