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New Horizons late cruise, 500 Millions kms - ~200 million kms
Bjorn Jonsson
post May 20 2014, 10:11 PM
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New Horizon's distance from Pluto drops below 500 million km today. The main thread here has been active since before launch and until today.

Today is an appropriate day for a new thread and there are also less than 14 months until Pluto arrival (time flies!). The coming months will see more spacecraft activity than in recent years with optical navigation images of Pluto/Charon, images of Neptune etc.

The next 14 months are going to be interesting to say the least.
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James S.
post May 20 2014, 10:30 PM
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Interesting is an understatement. This is going to be a fun year. To think, in July 2015 we'll be the first humans to ever see Pluto.


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Alan Stern
post May 20 2014, 11:03 PM
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Yes, and to think, 2014 is the last year when no one knows what Pluto and it's satellites really look like.
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post May 21 2014, 10:12 AM
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I was looking at Yaohua2000's website yesterday and noted the distance was nearly down to 500. Time flies when your having fun. smile.gif
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James S.
post May 21 2014, 01:54 PM
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Mr. Stern, I would like to thank you so much for New Horizons. What you and your team have done and are doing, it's a privilege to see what amazing will come of this.

Thank you,
James Sontag


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post May 21 2014, 06:43 PM
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I am eagerly waiting to update my two textures for Pluto and Charon

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Alan Stern
post May 21 2014, 09:13 PM
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QUOTE (James S. @ May 21 2014, 02:54 PM) *
Mr. Stern, I would like to thank you so much for New Horizons. What you and your team have done and are doing, it's a privilege to see what amazing will come of this.

Thank you,
James Sontag


Thank you James, it's an honor for all of us on New Horizons to make this science exploration dream come true.
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post Jul 15 2014, 12:24 PM
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A question on behalf of Alan: New Horizons accomplished a trajectory correction maneuver yesterday. Someone on Twitter suggested this was the deepest-space-ever rocket burn. Is it? When/where was the last Voyager TCM?


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Alan Stern
post Jul 21 2014, 04:27 PM
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Nice piece on our optical navigation plans, written by Emily following last week's science team mtg: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakda...v-campaign.html
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post Jul 21 2014, 04:38 PM
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Which reminds me, I got an answer to my question above from Twitter: The last TCMs of the Voyagers:

Voyager 1 = 1980-312/04:24 GMT after Saturn Flyby
Voyager 2 = 1989-233/15:14 GMT after Neptune Flyby


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post Jul 21 2014, 04:47 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jul 21 2014, 04:38 PM) *
Which reminds me, I got an answer to my question above from Twitter: The last TCMs of the Voyagers:

Voyager 1 = 1980-312/04:24 GMT after Saturn Flyby
Voyager 2 = 1989-233/15:14 GMT after Neptune Flyby



Emily- These are great numbers to have, thanks. One note, DOY=233=21 Aug so I believe the last Vgr 2 burn was just *prior* to Neptune C/A. Didn't ck on the Saturn DOY...
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post Jul 21 2014, 07:37 PM
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It's a very busy little system down to the limit of Hubble resolution, I'd be quite surprised if there aren't a number of other chunks of debris to add into the mix as these opnav campaigns proceed. Any redundancy in the obs campaign for as-yet unresolved moons/rings???
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post Jul 25 2014, 03:10 AM
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https://twitter.com/NewHorizons2015/status/...4711553/photo/1

Getting ever so closer... Pluto-Charon from 400 million km away
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post Jul 25 2014, 03:24 AM
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a close up
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Fran Ontanaya
post Jul 25 2014, 08:35 AM
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Denoised and edited brightness.

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