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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports [post-gazette.com] that NASA has announced approval of funding to continue monitoring and managing several spacecraft:

• Opportunity [wikipedia.org] (launched July 2003)
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [wikipedia.org] (launched August 2005)
• Mars Odyssey Orbiter [wikipedia.org] (launched April 2001)
• Dawn [wikipedia.org] (launched September 2007)
• the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [wikipedia.org] (launched June 2009)
• Mars Express [wikipedia.org] (in partnership with ESA)
• Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution [wikipedia.org] (launched November 2013)
• Curiosity [wikipedia.org] (launched November 2011)
• New Horizons [wikipedia.org] (launched January 2006)
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [wikipedia.org] (launched August 2005)

New Horizons, which passed the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015, is en route [soylentnews.org] to a Kuiper belt object called 2014 MU₆₉. [wikipedia.org] The funding means that when New Horizons reaches 2014 MU₆₉ around the beginning of the year 2019, NASA should be financially able to receive data about the encounter.

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