Pluto flyby: Nasa's New Horizons probe sends signal to Earth – as it happened
Live coverage as spacecraft successfully re-establishes contact with Nasa, bringing proof of its mission to reach the distant dwarf planet
4.24pm AEST
I'm wrapping up this live coverage now, but we will have a fresh live blog when the New Horizons team unveils its first findings from the Pluto flypast - that briefing is on Wednesday at 3pm ET (8pm BST/Thursday 5am AEST), and you'll be able to find that live blog via our Pluto page here.
Before I sign off, a quick round-up of what we learned as Nasa and co celebrate this latest space success:
We have a healthy spacecraft. We've recorded data of Pluto's system and we're outbound from Pluto.
Just like we practised, just like we planned it. We did it.
4.12pm AEST
We've heard a lot about New Horizons "phoning home", but as this Nasa update explains, the preprogrammed call was "a 15-minute series of status messages beamed back to mission operations at the Johns Hopkins University applied physics laboratory in Maryland through Nasa's Deep Space Network".
Travelling at the speed of light, the signal took four hours and 25 minutes to reach Earth, crosssing 4.7bn km of space.
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