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 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
GeezerButler Hey Alan! Terrific job on this project. Just a... Jan 15 2013, 03:36 PM machi It's physically impossible for New Horizons. P... Jan 15 2013, 04:03 PM GeezerButler Thanks for the comment, but what do you mean by de... Jan 15 2013, 04:18 PM
Chmee QUOTE (GeezerButler @ Jan 15 2013, 11:18 ... Jan 15 2013, 05:44 PM Floyd Change in velocity. Takes lots of energy (availabl... Jan 15 2013, 04:22 PM machi QUOTE (GeezerButler @ Jan 15 2013, 05:18 ... Jan 15 2013, 05:47 PM Paolo a new paper on the results of the Jupiter encounte... Jan 17 2013, 06:00 AM Explorer1 It's been over five years since LORRI last loo... Jan 21 2013, 10:11 PM GeezerButler The spacecraft's distance to Pluto is 7.15 AU.... Jan 29 2013, 03:33 AM Explorer1 I expect two points of light at this point. Images... Jan 29 2013, 05:56 AM tfisher Will New Horizons be in a position to see mutual P... Jan 31 2013, 03:29 PM GeezerButler QUOTE (tfisher @ Jan 31 2013, 07:29 PM) W... Jan 31 2013, 05:17 PM Bjorn Jonsson QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Jan 29 2013, 05:56 AM)... Jan 31 2013, 09:42 PM ups QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Jan 29 2013, 05:56 AM)... Feb 3 2013, 11:42 PM centsworth_II In the months long approach phase, NH will be watc... Jan 31 2013, 07:06 PM tfisher I got un-lazy and remembered the awesome geoviz to... Jan 31 2013, 07:29 PM centsworth_II There's also this from the Wikipedia entry on ... Jan 31 2013, 08:00 PM GeezerButler There will be tens of Pluto orbiters by then. Jan 31 2013, 08:02 PM GeezerButler By the way, what will be Uranus' and Nepune... Feb 5 2013, 01:10 AM nprev None at all. NH is past Uranus--which was distant ... Feb 5 2013, 01:26 AM Explorer1 Here's the link to the planets' positions ... Feb 5 2013, 04:18 AM jasedm Votes are in from the public for official names fo... Mar 16 2013, 10:56 AM Paolo QUOTE (jasedm @ Mar 16 2013, 12:56 PM) Vo... Jul 2 2013, 04:15 PM Paolo I am sorry for the trekkies, but Vulcan makes no s... Mar 16 2013, 11:07 AM centsworth_II Doubly sorry for the trekies, but I would go for R... Mar 16 2013, 02:02 PM Bjorn Jonsson I noticed that tomorrow New Horizons' distance... Mar 27 2013, 10:32 PM Explorer1 Yep; just checked it on Yaohua's page:
http://... Mar 28 2013, 02:44 AM yaohua2000 Today is a BIG day. Today is the day when New Hori... Mar 28 2013, 04:38 AM Alan Stern That's awesome! I'll tweet it for NH. Mar 28 2013, 03:30 PM TheAnt Thank you yaohua2000 for the milestone heads-up.
... Mar 28 2013, 09:38 PM brellis Right, the earth is approaching NH and Pluto. Mar 29 2013, 04:06 PM Alan Stern New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan... Jun 18 2013, 04:41 PM ngunn Great news! We want all the pictures and all ... Jun 18 2013, 09:20 PM SpaceListener How did they anticipate lower risks of presence of... Jun 24 2013, 10:06 PM john_s QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Jun 24 2013, 04:06... Jun 25 2013, 02:03 PM Explorer1 The conference next month should have the whole st... Jun 25 2013, 06:45 AM TheAnt Thank you for the update and explanation John_s an... Jun 30 2013, 02:35 PM brellis More moons = less dust, or more organized dust? Jun 30 2013, 06:03 PM centsworth_II QUOTE (brellis @ Jun 30 2013, 01:03 PM) M... Jun 30 2013, 06:21 PM dlilb200 After years of reading these forums I finally have... Jul 9 2013, 11:36 AM Paolo meanwhile, New Horizons has spotted Charon http://... Jul 10 2013, 06:43 PM Julius Given the close proximity of Charon and Pluto I co... Jul 11 2013, 12:29 PM djellison They are tidally locked to each other - I don... Jul 11 2013, 01:55 PM john_s In the early days there would have been a lot of t... Jul 11 2013, 02:19 PM djellison I wonder if either/ both will have a two-faces app... Jul 11 2013, 06:02 PM Bjorn Jonsson Pluto is known to have rather big albedo variation... Jul 11 2013, 10:11 PM nprev And we always will. We haven't even figured ou... Jul 11 2013, 10:12 PM Astro0 Just 730 days to go until New Horizons closest app... Jul 14 2013, 12:36 AM nprev Funny how that happens, isn't it?
But, yes: ... Jul 14 2013, 01:41 AM Explorer1 Alan Stern's webcast starting soon: pre-progra... Jul 23 2013, 11:24 PM nprev Do you have a direct link to the pre-program, or i... Jul 24 2013, 12:56 AM Explorer1 I just opened the stream 10-15 minutes early. It w... Jul 24 2013, 01:49 AM Explorer1 This article from Aviation Week mentions that ... Jul 28 2013, 02:33 AM Jaro_in_Montreal Stern said something about the far side of Pluto b... Jul 28 2013, 12:50 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (Jaro_in_Montreal @ Jul 28 2013, 12... Jul 28 2013, 01:03 PM john_s To elaborate a bit, we make these observations wel... Jul 28 2013, 02:25 PM jasedm QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 28 2013, 02:03 PM... Jul 29 2013, 06:26 AM JRehling Per questions about the quality of dark side imagi... Aug 2 2013, 05:14 PM Alan Stern FYI, my blog on recent New Horizons news, the Plut... Aug 23 2013, 07:08 PM dilo Thanks for highlight, Alan!
Herebelow I playe... Aug 24 2013, 04:10 PM Alan Stern Nice Dilo! Aug 24 2013, 07:05 PM Explorer1 Thanks for the replies. This is basically the same... Jul 28 2013, 09:40 PM djellison However - from Pluto- Charon takes up quite a lot ... Jul 28 2013, 10:31 PM Alan Stern FYI UMSF fans!
Pluto Science Conference Excee... Aug 1 2013, 03:29 PM Greg Hullender Doesn't the Lorri image help pinpoint the loca... Aug 24 2013, 03:39 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 24 2013, 04:3... Aug 24 2013, 07:07 PM Alan Stern Looking like we may avoid any need for an encounte... Sep 8 2013, 04:57 PM kwp My understanding was that the NH team hadn't y... Sep 11 2013, 02:48 PM Alan Stern The story in Science was inaccurate in this respec... Sep 11 2013, 06:23 PM brellis Can Kepler be of any help in the KBO search? Sep 13 2013, 07:35 PM Vultur Is the KBO delta-v budget the entire delta-v remai... Sep 14 2013, 07:56 PM MahFL I believe they hope to fly past maybe two KBO... Sep 16 2013, 12:49 PM Alan Stern We're going to save 1 kg for a long Voyager-li... Sep 16 2013, 04:21 PM stevesliva QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Sep 16 2013, 12:21 PM... Sep 16 2013, 07:23 PM Alan Stern Yes, the fuel is used for antenna pointing. There ... Sep 16 2013, 09:40 PM Astro0 ADMIN NOTE: A few recent posts that related to NH ... Oct 20 2013, 04:45 AM Alan Stern And by the way, Optical Navigation for the encount... Jan 1 2014, 07:43 PM nprev Happy New Year to you, Alan, and thanks so much fo... Jan 1 2014, 07:47 PM illexsquid Strange to think... Pluto has been known all my li... Jan 2 2014, 04:03 PM Alan Stern Let's all enjoy this last year of not knowing ... Jan 2 2014, 05:41 PM tedstryk I thought of New Horizons as a mission to a double... Jan 3 2014, 03:29 AM TheAnt QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 2 2014, 06:41 PM)... Jan 4 2014, 05:36 PM Superstring Well said. I've been looking forward to 2015 f... Jan 4 2014, 05:59 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 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  |
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