Live coverage: New Horizons sails past Ultima Thule

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/30/new-horizons-ultima-thule-mission-status-center/

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Video: Queen guitarist Brian May discusses his song celebrating Ultima Thule flyby

https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/01/01/video-queen-guitarist-brian-may-discusses-his-song-celebrating-ultima-thule-flyby/

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Brian May - New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix) [Official Music Video]

Celebrating the whole 12-year Journey of New Horizons probe. This is Brian’s personal tribute to the on-going NASA New Horizons mission, which on New Years Day 2019 will achieve the most distant spacecraft flyby in history.

Nasa's New Horizons: Excitement ahead of Ultima Thule flyby

Occurring some 6.5 billion km (4 billion miles) from Earth, the flyby will set a new record for the most distant ever exploration of a Solar System object by a spacecraft.

New Horizons will gather a swathe of images and other data over the course of just a few hours leading up to and beyond the closest approach.

This is timed for 05:33 GMT.

At that moment, the probe will be about 3,500km from Ultima's surface and moving at 14km/s.