> purging if there is an opportunity to look at something more interesting before everything could be sent back home. This is not a risk as, with high probabil

> purging if there is an opportunity to look at something more interesting before everything could be sent back home. This is not a risk as, with high probability, there is nothing else on their trajectory they will be able to look at for the 18-month downlink time. > I’m not sure if they even got all the data from pluto yet. They did. It's true that they have limited data storage space, but they have had plenty of time to download the entire data set from Pluto. https://futurism.com/it-took-15-months-but-all-of-new-horizons-data-has-finally-been-downloaded/ https://futurism.com/it-took-15-months-but-all-of-new-horizo... I believe the major constraint is how much data they can take during the short flyby time, not storage space or downlink time.