Petri Launiainen's Blog: A Brief History of Everything Wireless, page 13

New Horizons wakes up for Ultima Thule

One of the longest communications distances has again been activated as New Horizons was woken up for an encounter with a Kuiper Belt object called Ultima Thule. Ultima Thule, which freely translates to “Extreme North” and has an official designation of (486958) 2014 MU69, is an object that was found ...