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New Horizons - Mission to Pluto (1 Viewer)

TheAristocrat said:
Kinda wish this was going to orbit Pluto for a bit but still excited for the flyby.
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I think if they wanted to orbit Pluto, they would've had to take a much slower approach that would have added probably at least double the amount of time to get there. This thing is one of the fastest moving things ever created.

 
TheIronSheik said:
TheAristocrat said:
Kinda wish this was going to orbit Pluto for a bit but still excited for the flyby.
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I think if they wanted to orbit Pluto, they would've had to take a much slower approach that would have added probably at least double the amount of time to get there. This thing is one of the fastest moving things ever created.
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Ahhh, good point, GB. I've only had one cup of coffee this morning.

 
matttyl said:
Mario Kart said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/09/why-did-nasa-spend-9-years-getting-to-pluto-only-to-fly-right-past-it/

She can talk all she wants.
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So they'd have to fire off a rocket for ~17 days in order to slow it down enough to get caught up in Pluto's gravity? It's going that fast?
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About 36,000 miles per hour. Not sure but little spurts from a small rocket are not going to slow that down in the vacuum of space. Even though the New Horizons is small, the amount of fuel it would have had to carry is unreasonable.

 
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.

 
MikeIke said:
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.
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October 2016... :kicksrock:

 
matuski said:
MikeIke said:
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.
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October 2016... :kicksrock:
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They can put a man on the moon but cant put something better than a 28.8 on the pluto spaceship?

 
Scoresman said:
matuski said:
MikeIke said:
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.
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October 2016... :kicksrock:
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They can put a man on the moon but cant put something better than a 28.8 on the pluto spaceship?
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It was launched in January of 2006.

 
Mario Kart said:
Scoresman said:
matuski said:
MikeIke said:
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.
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October 2016... :kicksrock:
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They can put a man on the moon but cant put something better than a 28.8 on the pluto spaceship?
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It was launched in January of 2006.
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should've put someone on board to press "update" on the App Store button
 
Mario Kart said:
Scoresman said:
matuski said:
MikeIke said:
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.
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October 2016... :kicksrock:
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They can put a man on the moon but cant put something better than a 28.8 on the pluto spaceship?
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It was launched in January of 2006.
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Step 1: Acquire 25,000,000,000,000 feet of fiber optic cable.

 
MikeIke said:
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.
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Yup. They said that it would take months to get all of the pictures to us from today's flyby.

And at this point, the flyby has already happened. It is on its way to the Kuiper Belt at this point.

 
8:30 to 9:15 p.m. – NASA TV program, Phone Home, broadcast from APL Mission Control

NASA TV will share the suspenseful moments of this historic event with the public and museums around the world. The New Horizons spacecraft will send a preprogrammed signal after the closest approach. The mission team on Earth should receive the signal by about 9:02 p.m. When New Horizons “phones home,” there will be a celebration of its successful flyby and the anticipation of data to come in the days and months ahead.

 
Wednesday, July 15
Noon to 3 p.m. – Interview Opportunities (no NASA TV coverage)

Informal group briefings and availability for one-on-one interviews. An updated schedule will be posted in the New Horizons Media Center. Media may call into the media center for phone interviews during newsroom hours.

3 to 4 p.m. – Media Briefing: Seeing Pluto in a New Light; live on NASA TV

Release of close-up images of Pluto’s surface and moons, along with initial science team reactions.

 
Just watched the NASA.gov stream. New Horizons survived :hifive:

First pictures expected tomorrow. Media briefing to be streamed at 9:30 PM on NASA.gov (I think).

 
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TheIronSheik said:
MikeIke said:
Keep in mind that we won't be getting any pictures tomorrow. The probe is using all its resources for observation and not sending anything back. The first communication we get after flyby will be around 9:02 PM indicating that the probe survived its closest encounter. Wednesday will be the first images we see, and the data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted. This thing's data stream is slower than an old 28-baud modem.
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Yup. They said that it would take months to get all of the pictures to us from today's flyby.

It is on its way to the Kuiper Belt at this point.
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Is it also carrying Bert Kuiper's ashes?

 
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