New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
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New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
 Jan 20 2011, 08:40 PM
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 Administrator  Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454  |
I beg to differ, Ted, but that is not the only thing that is nice about being at the New Horizons team meeting
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Jan 21 2011, 02:04 AM
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Beg to differ about what?
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Jan 21 2011, 06:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
QUOTE (Paolo @ Jan 19 2011, 09:21 PM)  from the latest NH twitter Alan, we want details!!!! Not a lot of details yet, we just committed to study this! More details later in 2011. |
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Jan 21 2011, 06:51 PM
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QUOTE (machi @ Jan 19 2011, 04:06 PM) Yes! This is in what I'm secretly hoping from beginning of this mission. Some new estimations about power availability in this time horizon (~2040)? Well, my only guess is that the date is based on the performance of Voyager 1 and 2 so far. 2040 would be 34 years after the launch of New Horizons, and of course this year is 34 years after the launch of the two Voyager probes. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Jan 21 2011, 09:21 PM
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I think so too, but I'm interested about power availability for instruments. For example, in what distance will be possible encounter and succesfully photograph some KBO?
I have pdf about future levels of power of New Horizon's RTG, and if my memory is correct then critical date is ~2028. After that it isn't possible maintain all instruments. -------------------- |
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Jan 21 2011, 10:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
QUOTE (machi @ Jan 21 2011, 09:21 PM) I think so too, but I'm interested about power availability for instruments. For example, in what distance will be possible encounter and succesfully photograph some KBO? I have pdf about future levels of power of New Horizon's RTG, and if my memory is correct then critical date is ~2028. After that it isn't possible maintain all instruments. We have the capability to conduct KBO flybys far beyond the time we'll exit the main belt at 55 AU, i.e., about 2021 or 2022. After that, it's a heliosphere mission for SWAP, PEPSSI, Alice, and SDC-- assuming it is funded, someday. -Alan |
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Jan 27 2011, 03:45 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: 6-March 07 From: houston, texas Member No.: 1828 |
Sorry I couldn't be at the Team Meeting, always a fun time, but I was attending a team meeting for that other Dwarf Planet mission, Dawn, at the other end of California!
As we cross into Uranus' orbital space, I couldn't help feeling that if I were hibernating on board New Horizons right now, I'd be mighty cold but also rather lonely. No cool planets for miles around and another 4 years to wait. sigh . . . -------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
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Feb 22 2011, 08:21 PM
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Very absorbing talk given by Alan Stern earlier this year (followed by Q's & A's ) recently posted here on You Tube
Some of the content is covered earlier in this thread, but the talk underlines the amazing determination of Alan and others that this mission was going to get off the ground, despite some crushing setbacks. Well worth watching in full (it's over an hour), especially for the human side of the mission's background (how many plane tickets Alan????) A little over three weeks until NH crosses Uranus' orbit by the way.. Jase |
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Feb 22 2011, 09:33 PM
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thanks - a very nice hour indeed
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Feb 22 2011, 10:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
Alan S hopes KBO targets will be "in the bag" this summer!
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Feb 22 2011, 10:28 PM
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What I gleaned from this was the sheer single-minded determination that this mission was going to fly come-what-may - attributable to the personal efforts and advocacy of a few indefatigable people.
It's a huge endorsement of the idea that 'if you want it bad enough....' I personally am pleased if I can map out the upcoming six months in my career, leave aside ten years and more No-one on NH has bailed since launch - says a great deal for the team, and the management of it. When the data starts coming down in four years time (and I'm sure it will), all the plaudits will be eminently well-deserved. |
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Mar 12 2011, 09:57 PM
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A great recent talk on the mission by Alan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ZGFx6-xXs
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May 16 2011, 05:52 PM
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Posts on the KBO search moved here.
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Jul 9 2011, 11:08 AM
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QUOTE (tasp @ May 21 2010, 01:16 AM) Congratulations on your in flight successful test of the Nuclear Photonic Thruster. Perhaps future craft can utilize a more refined and useful version . . . Seriously, kudos to the navigation wizards for noting the tiny deflection and determining the cause. It is comforting to know NH is watched so carefully. Yes. Perhaps with better modeling of radiation pressure in the design stage of a probe/craft. we can use a tiny microthruster or something to cancel trajectory drifts. |
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Aug 16 2011, 09:16 PM
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