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Planning Six Years Ahead Laurel MD (SPX) May 22, 2009 
Things are going well out in the cold space between Saturn and Uranus where New Horizons is now. We're deep in planning for our spacecraft's annual checkout this summer, which begins on July 7. But that's not what I want to write about today: instead, it's something called EPDR. Despite still being more than six years and just over 18 astronomical units from the Pluto system, the New Horiz ... read moreNew Horizons Team Remembers The Girl Who Named Pluto 
Laurel MD (SPX) May 12, 2009The team guiding the first mission to Pluto is fondly remembering Venetia Burney Phair, the "little girl" who named the ninth planet when it was discovered nearly 80 years ago. Mrs. Phair died April 30 at her home in Epsom, England, at age 90. "Venetia's interest and success in naming Pluto as a schoolgirl caught the attention of the world and earned her a place in the history of planetary ... more
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The PI's Perspective: One-Third Down
Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 20, 2009We passed the milestone of being one-third of the distance to Pluto last year, but on March 19, 2009 - after 38 months and almost 2 billion kilometers of flight, New Horizons has completed precisely one-third of the days in its journey to Pluto. That's quite a milestone, and we on the mission team celebrate the closing of this chapter of our historic journey across the great expanse of our ... more New Horizons Detects Neptune's Moon Triton 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2009Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune's 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft checkout last fall. New Horizons was 2.33 billion miles (3.75 billion kilometers) from Neptune on Oct. 16, when LORRI, following a programmed sequence of commands, locked onto the planet and snapped away ... more The Lower Atmosphere Of Pluto Revealed
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 03, 2009Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained valuable new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto. The scientists found unexpectedly large amounts of methane in the atmosphere, and also discovered that the atmosphere is hotter than the surface by about 40 degrees, although it still only reaches a frigid minus 180 degrees Celsius. These properties of Pluto ... more NASA And ESA Prioritise Outer Planet Missions 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 19, 2009At a meeting in Washington last week, NASA and ESA officials decided to first pursue a mission to study Jupiter and its four largest moons, and plan for another mission to visit Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and Enceladus. The proposed projects are grand endeavours that set the stage for future planetary science research. These outer-planet flagship missions could eventually answer ... more |
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Flight Team Enjoys Some Mid-Cruise Time During Pluto Bound Mission
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 13, 2009As the new year takes root, the New Horizons team is about to celebrate the third anniversary of our launch on January 19, 2006. If you've been following our progress on Twitter or just reading posts on our Web site, then you know our spacecraft has covered well over one-third of the distance to Pluto in those three years, putting it now almost half a billion kilometers beyond Saturn. ... more New Horizons Earns A Holiday 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 22, 2008After an intense annual checkout - more like a deep-space workout - New Horizons is getting some well-deserved rest. New Horizons operators at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) eased the spacecraft into electronic hibernation on Dec. 16, wrapping up nearly four months of tests, data collection and software upgrades. The spacecraft's Earth-bound crew has now ... more Dawn Glides Into New Year 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2008JPL's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system as scheduled. The spacecraft is now gliding toward a Mars flyby in February of next year. "Dawn has completed the thrusting it needs to use Mars for a gravity assist to help get us to Vesta," said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Dawn will now coast in its orbit around ... more Nine Mementos Headed To The Ninth Planet 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2008PI's note: For this installment of the PI Perspective, I wanted to share with you my remarks from a ceremony on Oct. 17, during which we "inducted" the New Horizons model into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center, and celebrated the mission's accomplishments since launch. It was also the first time we revealed publicly the full set of commemorative items on New Horiz ... more |
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