New Horizons?  Sounds like the title to a business marketing strategy.  Does not grab the imagination, nor does it convey where the probe is going.

...That is done via a door in the fairing.

What is the farthest distance (and currently planned date) New Horizons will be from Pluto before it can start returning useful images of that planet/comet and its moons/minicomets?

And by useful I mean better than what we can currently see from Earth.

Thank you.

From the:"Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report "

Does that mean that today is the last day we can see New Horizons spacecraft or will they be opening fairing again when they mate it with Atlas-5?
Nothing's hapening yet...

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Looking forward to see some details on the Computing bits & pieces of NH 

By the way, was New Horizons built in-house at NASA-JPL or by some contractor ?


( Design was by John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ... was it built at that University ? )

Just another question:

Was New Horizons built in-house at NASA-JPL or by which contracter was the spacecraft built ?

You are correct.

Do You know anything of the computing hardware onboard ?
( memory size, RAD750 microprocessors, etc ... ) 

Philip

In other mission-related news, NASA has asked New Horizons to stand down from
launching on 14 and 15 January owing to tracking resource conflicts as Stardust
returns to Earth with its comet sample, and we agreed, to help Stardust out.

-Alan

Striking machinists ask Boeing to delay NH launch.
Union says replacements not qualified for work.

http://www.al.com/business/huntsvilletimes...5230.xml&coll=1

Rakhir

I'm sorry... I don't have the schedule of NH processing..

NASA has marked the launch as no earlier than Nov. 17 2006 officially now.

They getting up New Horizons to put in upper stage.

Camelopardalids?  Don't ask me why, but that name just sounds so... absurd, somehow...

-the other Doug

Good news on the Discovery cost cap front: the Senate-House conference has just officially raised it to $425 million.  Not quite what Andy Dantzler wanted, but close.

Will this probe carry a gold disk of some kind? Ala Voyager/Pioneer

And it still will not be complete, plus you cannot be certain that something won't happen to destroy many of our records - a totalitarian regime that wants to rewrite history in its favor ala 1984.  With less than 30% of the current nations being only nominally democratic, this scenario is entirely possible.

Once again - a few disks that could contain so much information could be safely preserved on deep spacecraft for ages, and for the ages.  I can't believe I have to keep arguing this. 

Thank [insert deity here] Sagan and his people were around in the 1970s to at least get something of substance on our first interstellar probes.

Yes, showing once again that this whole Put Your Name on a Space Probe bit is just a publicity stunt designed to entice a public that barely knows what mission is going on where. 

I can't count how many people I told about Deep Impact who had NO CLUE it even existed, let alone what its mission was.  So much for the NASA publicity/education machine. 

Want to guess how many people can tell you they know that a Japanese probe is orbiting a small planetoid and is set to land on it and return a sample to Earth?
You would think that would be big news, NASA or othewise, but silly me.

And if they were so gung-ho on preserving those precious signatures, it should have been on the flyby bus.