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In time. I hunted a bit for something to mention how long it'll take to get all the data, and found: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/what-to...

>As MU69 is substantially farther from Earth than Pluto was, the data downlink will be slower; it’s expected to take 20 months, conveniently wrapping up around the end of fiscal year 2020.

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If you're interested in following these things, the Deep Space Network Now page [1] is a fun one to keep bookmarked. It displays the real time status of each DSN station and what spacecraft they are communicating with. [edit] you'll want to click on "more detail" on the lower right to see the technical information about the signals for each antenna.

Right now, Canberra has both an uplink and a downlink going to New Horizons.

Even more fun is when they get a downlink from one of the Voyager probes. The signal strength is so incredibly small, it's testament to very skilled engineers developing the signal processing they use.

[1] https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

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