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by SubMachineGhost 2730 days ago
Pluto's flyby generated about 8GB of data and it took about 16 months to get all of it downloaded [1], and this data includes more than just the images, and i read somewhere that the Ultima Thule flyby will generate about 6GB of data.

I think the images are the first thing that get downloaded, so it should not take more than a week to get all high res images.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Telecommunication...