New Horizons late cruise, 500 Millions kms - ~200 million kms |
New Horizons late cruise, 500 Millions kms - ~200 million kms |
May 20 2014, 10:11 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2250 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
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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May 20 2014, 10:30 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 26-March 12 From: San Antonio, Texas Member No.: 6368 |
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.
-------------------- Axes Grind and Maces Clash!
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May 20 2014, 11:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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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May 21 2014, 10:12 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I was looking at Yaohua2000's website yesterday and noted the distance was nearly down to 500. Time flies when your having fun.
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May 21 2014, 01:54 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 26-March 12 From: San Antonio, Texas Member No.: 6368 |
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 -------------------- Axes Grind and Maces Clash!
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May 21 2014, 06:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
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May 21 2014, 09:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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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Jul 15 2014, 12:24 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
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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Jul 21 2014, 04:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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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Jul 21 2014, 04:38 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
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 -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jul 21 2014, 04:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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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Jul 21 2014, 07:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
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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Jul 25 2014, 03:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
https://twitter.com/NewHorizons2015/status/...4711553/photo/1
Getting ever so closer... Pluto-Charon from 400 million km away -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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Jul 25 2014, 03:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
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Jul 25 2014, 08:35 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 22-September 08 From: Spain Member No.: 4350 |
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