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djellison
post Jan 19 2006, 08:51 PM
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Just a quite post-sep thread to say congratulations to Alan and the team, here's to a clean checkout and small TCM's smile.gif Many thanks for taking the time to share the experience to date with us here, your efforts are very much appreciated.

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post Jan 20 2006, 04:07 AM
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Like everyone else, let me say congratulations to the entire NH team. Amazing. Dramatic, beautiful, and with just enough tension to make the whole process a real nailbiter.

I also think this was an excellent job of outreach, everything from Alan's appearances on this board to the signature disk. I took more than a couple of skeptics and had them excited after running upstairs and printing out a quick certificate proving that their name was going in to space.

Thanks and congratulations!

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post Jan 20 2006, 01:07 PM
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QUOTE (just-nick @ Jan 20 2006, 04:07 AM)
Like everyone else, let me say congratulations to the entire NH team.  Amazing.  Dramatic, beautiful, and with just enough tension to make the whole process a real nailbiter.

I also think this was an excellent job of outreach, everything from Alan's appearances on this board to the signature disk.  I took more than a couple of skeptics and had them excited after running upstairs and printing out a quick certificate proving that their name was going in to space.

Thanks and congratulations!

--Nick
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Thanks to all of you for being interested and for your good wishes. New Horizons is
operating flawlessly, and it looks like the Atlas gave us an almost perfect injection,
with the consequence being that we will have far more fuel for KBO exploration
than we had planned for in our nominal models. More later. Thanks again to all.

-Alan
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post Jan 24 2006, 07:08 AM
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QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 20 2006, 02:07 PM)
It looks like the Atlas gave us an almost perfect injection,
with the consequence being that we will have far more fuel for KBO exploration
than we had planned for in our nominal models.
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During the pre launch pressconference you told that the opening for the post Pluto trajectory was only 0.1 degrees. How much further will this open due to the fuel you saved ?


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post Jan 24 2006, 08:20 AM
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QUOTE (DEChengst @ Jan 24 2006, 07:08 AM)
During the pre launch pressconference you told that the opening for the post Pluto trajectory was only 0.1 degrees. How much further will this open due to the fuel you saved ?
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...Perhaps now 0.3 or 0.4 deg.
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- djellison   Congratulations To Alan Et. Al.   Jan 19 2006, 08:51 PM
- - mchan   Thanks especially for your time in replying to que...   Jan 19 2006, 08:55 PM
- - odave   Yes, congratulations and best hopes for a problem-...   Jan 19 2006, 09:05 PM
- - Boxcarx   I think it's amazing that people like Alan and...   Jan 19 2006, 09:20 PM
|- - dilo   Congratulation too!! (and hope NH isn...   Jan 19 2006, 09:25 PM
|- - Tom Tamlyn   QUOTE (Boxcarx @ Jan 19 2006, 04:20 PM)My que...   Jan 19 2006, 09:27 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Jan 19 2006, 04:27 PM)P.S...   Jan 19 2006, 10:12 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 19 2006, 10:12 PM)Do...   Jan 19 2006, 10:20 PM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 19 2006, 05:20 PM)I...   Jan 19 2006, 10:27 PM
|- - punkboi   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 19 2006, 03:12 PM)Wo...   Jan 20 2006, 08:02 PM
- - RNeuhaus   I join to this topic to express that I am very gra...   Jan 19 2006, 09:32 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Jan 19 2006, 09:32 PM)I joi...   Jan 19 2006, 09:36 PM
- - lyford   Congratulations to a good return on all the hard w...   Jan 19 2006, 09:38 PM
- - Boxcarx   Assuming that there are quite a few people working...   Jan 19 2006, 10:01 PM
|- - punkboi   QUOTE (Boxcarx @ Jan 19 2006, 03:01 PM)Assumi...   Jan 19 2006, 10:06 PM
- - Rob Pinnegar   Voyager 3 would have been a very good name for his...   Jan 19 2006, 10:53 PM
|- - mars loon   Congratulations !!! to Alan and th...   Jan 20 2006, 12:14 AM
- - Orlin Denkov   I would like also to congratulate Dr Stern. It has...   Jan 20 2006, 12:13 AM
|- - David   QUOTE (Orlin Denkov @ Jan 20 2006, 12:13 AM)O...   Jan 20 2006, 02:10 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Today was a good day! Congratulations to both...   Jan 20 2006, 12:52 AM
- - marsman   Congratulations to the entire New Horizons team...   Jan 20 2006, 01:34 AM
|- - imran   Congratulations!! A treasure trove of dis...   Jan 20 2006, 01:54 AM
- - nprev   Just got off a plane and saw the happy news...Cong...   Jan 20 2006, 02:04 AM
- - dvandorn   To Alan, John and all others from the NH team who ...   Jan 20 2006, 03:59 AM
- - just-nick   Like everyone else, let me say congratulations to ...   Jan 20 2006, 04:07 AM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (just-nick @ Jan 20 2006, 04:07 AM...   Jan 20 2006, 01:07 PM
|- - chris   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 20 2006, 01:07 PM)Tha...   Jan 20 2006, 01:12 PM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 20 2006, 06:07 AM)Tha...   Jan 21 2006, 12:17 AM
||- - Bjorn Jonsson   Congratulations to Alan, John and others involved ...   Jan 21 2006, 01:31 AM
|- - DEChengst   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 20 2006, 02:07 PM)It ...   Jan 24 2006, 07:08 AM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (DEChengst @ Jan 24 2006, 07:08 AM)Duri...   Jan 24 2006, 08:20 AM
|- - ustrax   I wasn't nervous because...I MISSED IT!...   Jan 24 2006, 05:50 PM
|- - DEChengst   QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 24 2006, 06:50 PM)I wasn...   Jan 24 2006, 08:08 PM
|- - ljk4-1   Universe Today Podcast: There Goes New Horizons S...   Feb 11 2006, 07:57 PM
- - Tesheiner   Congratulations for that beautiful (and sometimes ...   Jan 20 2006, 10:25 AM
- - djellison   I was a wreck - I don't think I've ever be...   Jan 21 2006, 10:55 AM
- - Bill Harris   >I was a wreck - I don't think I've eve...   Jan 21 2006, 11:48 AM
- - jinydu   I'm an undergraduate student at university and...   Jan 21 2006, 08:25 PM
- - PhilCo126   jinydu, check the books & resources folder of ...   Jan 24 2006, 06:11 PM
- - hendric   Wow, that extra fuel should really open the search...   Jan 24 2006, 07:39 PM


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