They last for a day - and that's it.

It also costs an order of magnitude more than printing a plastic one.

Correct.

Install Google Earth
Load Nogal's KMZ

DONE

Easier than registering for UMSF ;-)

The uncertainty of the C/A time in the week leading up to the flyby was more than that.

That should basically answer your question.

Had a stab at it myself

( https://dougellison.smugmug.com/Landscapes/...ity/i-8kn79Sq/A )

As a heads up - we are slowly getting reconstructed pointing data from the NH team and putting it into Eyes as and when we can.

Yesterday a new release went live with some of that data included.

It should actually be pretty good.

I've tried ( but failed ) to find a source for the full res data - it's just so stunning.

Clearly, given the accuracy and error bars of the PDF oft cited in this thread.

To drop from 14km/sec to 1.2km/sec ( which is what you basically have to do ) in, say, an 1800km quarter circumference of Pluto would require an average deceleration of 5G. In your example - you would have to generate even more acceleration than that! It's just not going to happen.

Pedantic note.... whilst Ralph and Alice are not acronyms... LORRI is.

$650M isn't cheap - New Horizons was New Frontiers class. Only Flagship missions are more expensive. Unless you are actually building them at the same time, there is little to be saved by building any sort of copy.

New Frontiers missions are now in the region of $800M - and given the current budget environment, expecting more than two every decade could be considered highly optimistic.

You are reading far far too much into the images.

This was done 15 years before by Deep Space 1.

RTLT (Round Trip Light Time) for New Horizons is only 31748.800883 seconds right now - approx 8hrs 49 mins 8.8 seconds.

Not sure where you got 18 hours from.

currently TXing at 9 bps.... that's a safe mode alright!! Usually it's between 1k and 2kbps

The Voyagers typically do 160bps. Something like Dawn about 125kbps - MRO upto around 5Mbps.

It'll show up when it shows up.

I learned long long ago to never expect a data release on any schedule from ESA. That way, 5+ years later, when it does show up...it's a nice surprise.

Yup - it's a transit. Screengrab from eyes.nasa.gov

Stereo imaging and shape from shading.

There is a rather exceptional shape model generated from Dawn data for Vesta. The same will happen with Ceres.

I'll be at APL for the week as well - driving 'Eyes on Pluto' ( eyes.nasa.gov/pluto ) for NASA TV, the media etc - see you there!

Doug

Data..


Galileo - 120bps.

Europa Mission - probably three orders of magnitude more.

Globe maps of Europa at significantly higher resolution that currently available

Instruments 30 years more modern than those on Galileo.

And - there may be a lander along for the ride.

What will we get from this mission that we didn't get from Galileo?

EVERYTHING.

It's not onboard.

Those speeds are all relative to their local frame of reference and absolutely ARE suitable for comparison - nothing wrong with it at all.