Full Resolution Project Manager Helene Winters gives the status overview. From a technical standpoint, the mission is doing extremely well.
The only major issue that has come up is on the public affairs side of things: due to the 2018 US government shutdown, the NASA press office cannot be involved with our encounter. No press releases, no web sites, no social media support, and no NASA TV.
In the end we were fortunately able to arrange things with them so that the world could see the critical moments of the flyby, live on NASA TV -- even during the shutdown. APL handled the rest of the media themselves, filling in for NASA to cover press, social media, web production, and on and on
Although New Horizons is a NASA-funded mission, we were quite fortunate that given the shutdown, New Horizons is not a NASA-operated mission, which gave us the autonomy to continue activities.
