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New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt
cIclops
post 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
- - Explorer1   An update on the KBO search: 51 new ones found, bu...   Jan 24 2014, 12:02 AM
- - nprev   To be honest, I've always regarded a KBO encou...   Jan 24 2014, 01:05 AM
|- - Alan Stern   The Decadal Survey that recommended this mission v...   Jan 24 2014, 11:03 AM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 24 2014, 12:03 PM...   Jan 24 2014, 01:24 PM
||- - Alan Stern   To be clear, it will happen *if* HST approves the ...   Jan 24 2014, 01:55 PM
|- - E Musk   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 24 2014, 03:03 AM...   Feb 11 2014, 02:10 AM
- - nprev   Did not know that, and thanks, Alan. Okay, so it...   Jan 24 2014, 12:45 PM
- - hendric   Would Spitzer warm mission be useful for surveys a...   Jan 24 2014, 06:31 PM
|- - john_s   No, Spitzer doesn't go nearly faint enough. N...   Jan 24 2014, 07:14 PM
- - elakdawalla   Here's a slide showing the proposed HST search...   Jan 24 2014, 07:20 PM
- - dtolman   One year from now (+/- a few weeks) NH will begin ...   Feb 4 2014, 01:45 AM
|- - Doug M.   So here's an odd coincidence: NH will cross th...   Feb 5 2014, 11:52 AM
- - climber   Check out the exact time Doug M...it could be augu...   Feb 6 2014, 12:23 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (climber @ Feb 6 2014, 12:23 PM) Ch...   Feb 7 2014, 12:31 AM
- - nprev   And NH will encounter Pluto on the 50th anniversar...   Feb 7 2014, 12:56 AM
|- - Alan Stern   Err, friends in high places? ;-)   Feb 7 2014, 01:08 AM
- - nprev   (Note to self: Do not EVER tick off Alan Stern….)   Feb 7 2014, 01:14 AM
- - Explorer1   Speaking of, a new (particularly poignant) PI Pers...   Feb 7 2014, 06:52 AM
- - stevesliva   Quick snippet from Cassini status: QUOTE Wednesday...   Feb 7 2014, 06:19 PM
- - Explorer1   Pluto and Charon are already visible as pixels fro...   Apr 19 2014, 03:33 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Apr 18 2014, 08:33 PM)...   Apr 19 2014, 05:30 AM
|- - Alan Stern   What Doug said is exactly right.   Apr 19 2014, 11:15 PM
- - Greg Hullender   Are they good enough to reduce the uncertainty in ...   Apr 27 2014, 08:30 PM
|- - Alan Stern   New Horizons will begin conducting optical navigat...   Apr 28 2014, 10:55 AM
- - tfisher   Are there plans to re-measure the source stars for...   Apr 29 2014, 06:50 AM
|- - Alan Stern   No such plans, but that's a novel idea. I don...   Apr 29 2014, 10:12 AM
- - remcook   I guess GAIA is too late for that?   Apr 29 2014, 01:07 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   GAIA will probably observe all those stars multipl...   Apr 29 2014, 02:59 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   Now that New Horizons is very late in its cruise p...   Sep 22 2014, 09:18 PM
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