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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cIclops New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise Feb 8 2005, 02:09 PM
Alan Stern The major contribution NH will make to understandi... Apr 4 2005, 11:23 AM Jeff7 Kind of OT here, but I'd love to see them stra... Apr 7 2005, 05:29 PM tedstryk That is definitely true. When one looks at the co... Apr 8 2005, 04:30 AM BruceMoomaw Well, then, you'll be pleased to know that the... Apr 8 2005, 02:48 PM
tedstryk QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 8 2005, 02:48 PM)Wel... Apr 8 2005, 04:30 PM Sunspot .....second decade? lol
My vote goes to the ... Apr 8 2005, 05:11 PM cIclops As usual good news travels slower than the speed o... Apr 8 2005, 05:12 PM odave QUOTE (cIclops @ Apr 8 2005, 01:12 PM)115 Day... Apr 8 2005, 06:37 PM Alan Stern Just for fun, see attached. Apr 17 2005, 09:46 PM Alan Stern New Horizons Alice has more redundancy. It also ha... Apr 18 2005, 03:50 AM djellison QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Apr 17 2005, 09:46 PM)Jus... Apr 18 2005, 08:42 AM Alan Stern QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 18 2005, 08:42 AM)QUOT... Apr 18 2005, 11:05 AM paxdan QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Apr 18 2005, 12:05 PM)QUO... Apr 21 2005, 07:58 AM Alan Stern From alan@boulder.swri.edu Thu May 5 07:42:31 200... May 5 2005, 01:50 PM gpurcell Alan, are you getting any sense that Kaiko and the... May 5 2005, 05:02 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (gpurcell @ May 5 2005, 05:02 PM)Alan, ... May 5 2005, 10:40 PM DEChengst I noticed that both New Horizons and Rosetta will ... Apr 18 2005, 01:07 AM hendric Alan,
Has your team determined plans for availab... Apr 18 2005, 03:03 AM djellison 'Always destatic yourself before touching the ... Apr 18 2005, 12:06 PM Jim QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 18 2005, 06:06 AM)... Apr 20 2005, 02:09 AM deglr6328 QUOTE (Alan Stern @ May 5 2005, 10:40 PM)QUOT... May 6 2005, 03:24 AM tedstryk QUOTE (deglr6328 @ May 6 2005, 03:24 AM)QUOTE... May 6 2005, 03:42 AM chuckyvt Congradulations Alan on making New Horizons a real... May 8 2005, 09:00 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (chuckyvt @ May 8 2005, 09:00 PM)Congra... May 9 2005, 11:31 AM Bob Shaw Alan:
Glad to hear you guys got the fuel!
Wh... May 9 2005, 03:34 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 9 2005, 03:34 PM)Alan:
... May 10 2005, 02:41 AM Alan Stern Subject: New Horizons Update
20 May 2005
Scienc... May 21 2005, 03:05 PM lyford Alan -
Thanks for the update - this is exciting... May 21 2005, 06:29 PM Analyst Alan,
thanks for this update.
I'm sure you d... May 24 2005, 03:19 PM Chmee Yes, please no blurred images or star navigation. ... May 24 2005, 03:32 PM Alan Stern An updated NH mission background and current statu... Jul 8 2005, 08:10 PM MiniTES QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 8 2005, 08:10 PM)An u... Jul 14 2005, 07:01 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (MiniTES @ Jul 14 2005, 07:01 PM)Good s... Jul 15 2005, 06:13 AM Comga Another great image is in the July 11 issue of Avi... Jul 16 2005, 04:54 PM Alan Stern The numbers in the AvWeek article are not correct.... Jul 17 2005, 12:25 PM djellison Lovely pic of the near-complete spacecraft on slid... Jul 8 2005, 10:40 PM Alan Stern Doug,
As small as spacecraft as you can get away ... Jul 9 2005, 01:19 AM edstrick I THINK the Pioneer Jupiter missions crossed the M... Jul 9 2005, 07:54 AM SFJCody When will New Horizons exceed Voyager 1's dist... Jul 9 2005, 11:58 AM BruceMoomaw QUOTE (edstrick @ Jul 9 2005, 07:54 AM)I THIN... Jul 10 2005, 08:10 AM MiniTES Alan: Do you and the science team plan to (or have... Jul 14 2005, 02:28 PM djellison QUOTE (MiniTES @ Jul 14 2005, 02:28 PM)Alan: ... Jul 14 2005, 02:51 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (MiniTES @ Jul 14 2005, 02:28 PM)Alan: ... Jul 14 2005, 05:59 PM DEChengst QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 14 2005, 07:59 PM)Yes... Jul 14 2005, 06:51 PM Decepticon Does the gravity assist at jupiter cross within th... Jul 17 2005, 12:43 PM BruceMoomaw No -- it's a short distance outside Callisto... Jul 17 2005, 12:51 PM tedstryk QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 17 2005, 12:51 PM)No... Jul 17 2005, 01:00 PM GBTO I have been following this forum (as well as ISSDG... Jul 17 2005, 04:38 PM lyford QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 17 2005, 04:51 AM)Ye... Jul 17 2005, 04:31 PM BruceMoomaw Well, I have no objection to the "smaller and... Jul 17 2005, 09:26 PM lyford hi Bruce, I think I had heard that story about Gol... Jul 17 2005, 10:31 PM Bob Shaw New Scientist has an interesting article this week... Jul 23 2005, 11:29 PM garybeau Bob,
Some good information at the NSSDC here... ht... Jul 24 2005, 01:15 PM john_s QUOTE (garybeau @ Jul 24 2005, 01:15 PM)Bob,
... Jul 24 2005, 01:49 PM garybeau QUOTE (john_s @ Jul 24 2005, 08:49 AM)We are ... Jul 25 2005, 11:41 PM john_s QUOTE (garybeau @ Jul 25 2005, 11:41 PM)Even ... Jul 25 2005, 11:49 PM alan Hurry up and launch it before someone decides Plut... Aug 4 2005, 04:43 AM tfisher Question: is the final trajectory for the new hori... Aug 30 2005, 03:26 AM antoniseb QUOTE (tfisher @ Aug 29 2005, 10:26 PM)a slas... Aug 30 2005, 07:44 PM Alan Stern New Horizons is on a one-way trip, outward bound.
... Aug 31 2005, 10:35 AM Bob Shaw QUOTE (antoniseb @ Aug 30 2005, 08:44 PM)If t... Aug 31 2005, 10:50 AM djellison That 225 million years involves an orbit...around ... Aug 31 2005, 10:51 AM Bob Shaw QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 31 2005, 11:51 AM)That... Aug 31 2005, 11:00 AM Marcel Something different; I'm curious about how muc... Aug 31 2005, 11:01 AM antoniseb QUOTE (Marcel @ Aug 31 2005, 06:01 AM)how muc... Aug 31 2005, 04:37 PM djellison Well, a low circular orbit of say, 100km around pl... Aug 31 2005, 11:32 AM Marcel SO:
At roughly 400 kg's of (dry) mass, that w... Aug 31 2005, 12:00 PM JRehling QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 31 2005, 04:32 AM)Well... Sep 1 2005, 04:28 AM djellison But then - at the beginning of that burn, you... Aug 31 2005, 12:22 PM Marcel QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 31 2005, 12:22 PM)But ... Aug 31 2005, 12:48 PM Ames QUOTE (Marcel @ Aug 31 2005, 01:48 PM)I knew ... Aug 31 2005, 01:02 PM djellison give a deceleration of 1 mN on 400kg - you've ... Aug 31 2005, 01:17 PM Marcel QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 31 2005, 01:17 PM)give... Aug 31 2005, 01:49 PM Jeff7 What about a space-based launch? This'd assume... Aug 31 2005, 10:01 PM BruceMoomaw The main problem with low-thrust orbiters for the ... Aug 31 2005, 10:19 PM tedstryk QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 31 2005, 10:19 PM)Bu... Sep 1 2005, 12:38 AM BruceMoomaw It is considered unlikely that even the impact tha... Sep 1 2005, 03:13 AM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 31 2005, 09:13 PM)..... Sep 1 2005, 05:37 AM hendric Such a large percentage of KBOs are binaries, what... Sep 1 2005, 06:30 AM Cugel space.com
Mission update.
It will take the probe... Sep 1 2005, 12:08 PM Marcel RE: New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise Sep 1 2005, 12:23 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (Cugel @ Sep 1 2005, 07:08 AM)space.com... Sep 1 2005, 01:06 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Sep 1 2005, 02:06 PM)On ... Sep 1 2005, 09:11 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Sep 1 2005, 02:06 PM)On ... Sep 1 2005, 09:12 PM Mongo QUOTE (Cugel @ Sep 1 2005, 12:08 PM)space.com... Sep 1 2005, 04:11 PM tedstryk I don't know of another large KBO that is a bi... Sep 1 2005, 08:33 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (tedstryk @ Sep 1 2005, 02:33 PM)There ... Sep 2 2005, 02:19 PM antoniseb QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Sep 2 2005, 09:19 AM)So... Sep 2 2005, 03:22 PM maycm QUOTE ...the Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer... Sep 1 2005, 01:23 PM RNeuhaus Primary launch window for New Horizons is January ... Sep 2 2005, 08:06 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Sep 2 2005, 03:06 PM)Primar... Sep 2 2005, 08:07 PM dvandorn QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Sep 2 2005, 03:06 PM)Wow, j... Sep 2 2005, 08:10 PM remcook QUOTE Wow, just 9 hours to Moon How f... Sep 3 2005, 10:24 AM RNeuhaus As I am new with the space and am starting to unde... Sep 3 2005, 06:16 PM  |
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