New Horizons Arrives At Ksc |
New Horizons Arrives At Ksc |
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NASA Press Release
APL press release Space.com Article Coming up... October: communications checks November: hydrazine loading and Atlas V countdown rehearsal December: integration with Atlas V January: LAUNCH! ![]() No pictures on the KSC webcams yet. ![]() But still pictures here. ![]() ![]() Is that the flight RTG attached to the spacecraft? ![]() |
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Alan Stern says its RTG fuel -- although less than originally planned -- can keep it working for about 10 years after the 2015 Pluto flyby. Hopefully that's enough to get at least one flyby of a small additional KBO (as yet unidentified) -- or two of them, if we're really lucky.
(That's still almost a decade less than the two Voyagers have already worked! I wonder how long NH could be kept working and sending back data from just its three instruments that are relevant to deep-space observations.) |
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