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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has awakened from a 321-day hibernation period about 5.9 billion mi. from Earth and begun transmitting data gathered during the interim, according to an agency mission update. The awakening occurred on June 23. Signals took nearly 9 hr. to reach flight controllers at…<\/p>\n

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