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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:

The New Horizons probe has made contact with Earth, proof that the spacecraft survived its historic flyby of Pluto.

The signal was received at precisely 8.52.37pm Eastern time.

Scientists working on the mission said New Horizons had experienced no problems or error messages, and everything had gone to plan.

Alice Bowman, mission operations manager, said:

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.

New Horizons Flight Controllers celebrate after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto. Photograph: Bill Ingalls/AP

Pluto’s two-toned heart, seen from the New Horizons spacecraft. Photograph: AP

That’s it for now – thank you for reading and for all your comments.