New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
Feb 8 2005, 02:09 PM
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Yes it's happening after all these years, the mission to the last planet!
And maybe to celebrate the confirmation of budget, NASA approval preparations and the fueling of the RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator), there is an updated web site at http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ Launch will be January 2006 with arrival at the Pluto Charon system July 2015 (mark your calender!) and then on through the Kuiper belt during 2016-2020 and beyond. 20.8-centimeter telescope for 100m resolution at closest approach IR/UV spectrometers 2 x 8GB data recorders data rate: 768 bps (sic) to 70m DSN 465kg including fuel $650m 336 days to launch -------------------- |
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Nov 8 2005, 11:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
Will this probe carry a gold disk of some kind? Ala Voyager/Pioneer
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Nov 9 2005, 02:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (Decepticon @ Nov 8 2005, 06:21 PM) Go to this post for a response from the New Horizons team on their decision not to include any kind of message/information packet: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=25901 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Nov 12 2005, 08:23 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Nov 9 2005, 09:30 AM) Go to this post for a response from the New Horizons team on their decision not to include any kind of message/information packet: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=25901 This is very upsetting to me at least. I will email them telling them of my disappointment. |
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Nov 13 2005, 06:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
QUOTE (Decepticon @ Nov 12 2005, 01:23 PM) Personally, I think an intricate spacecraft with nuclear power and state of the art computers on board, on a trajectory that will communicate its origin for at least tens of thousands of years is a pretty good message that doesn't need much elaboration. |
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