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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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|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Nov 6 2005, 04:56 PM)That...   Nov 6 2005, 03:24 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 6 2005, 08:24 AM)Yep, Ca...   Nov 7 2005, 01:46 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (JRehling @ Nov 7 2005, 03:46 AM)I doub...   Nov 7 2005, 11:22 AM
|- - john_s   QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 7 2005, 11:22 AM)I don...   Nov 7 2005, 05:40 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (john_s @ Nov 7 2005, 07:40 PM)Sorry, b...   Nov 7 2005, 06:54 PM
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||- - imran   A pretty in-depth article in the John Hopkins Maga...   Nov 7 2005, 11:33 PM
||- - Comga   QUOTE (john_s @ Nov 7 2005, 02:40 PM)That...   Nov 8 2005, 04:20 AM
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||- - ugordan   QUOTE (john_s @ Nov 7 2005, 10:40 PM)The data...   Nov 9 2005, 03:16 PM
||- - just-nick   QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 9 2005, 08:16 AM)Didn...   Nov 13 2005, 01:42 AM
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