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posted by takyon on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly

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Eyes on Pluto application

New Horizons mission to Pluto prepares for huge letdown on Tuesday AM:

On Tuesday morning at 0449 PDT (1149 UTC), the New Horizons space probe will make mankind's first visit to Pluto, and there will be much rejoicing; but we won't actually know if the mission is a success until much later in the day. At a press conference on Monday the team, some of whom have been working on the project for more than 20 years, explained that despite all the celebrations planned for tomorrow morning, the real crunch time will come at around 1800 PDT (0100 UTC), when the first signals for the probe are returned.

Update: New Horizons is expected to call home at 8:53 PM EDT.

NASA TV Schedule for Tuesday-Wednesday [More detail here]

Channel Title Time (UTC)   (EDT)
    Tuesday    
All Live Satellite Interviews with NASA Administrator
Charles Bolden on the New Horizons Mission
09:30-10:45   5:30-6:45 AM
All New Horizons Mission Celebration 11:30-12:30   7:30-8:30 AM
All NASA News Briefing on New Horizon Mission 12:00-13:00   8:00-9:00 AM
NTV-3 Live Satellite Interviews with NASA Administrator
Charles Bolden on the New Horizons Mission (Starts at 13:15am)
13:00-15:30   9:00-11:30 AM
NTV-1 & 2 The Year of Pluto – a Documentary 17:00-18:00   1:00-2:00 PM
    Wednesday    
All NASA News Briefing on New Horizon Mission 01:30-02:30   9:30-10:30 PM
All Live Satellite Interviews on the New Horizons Mission 10:00-14:00   6:00-10:00 AM
All Live Satellite Interviews on the New Horizons Mission 16:00-20:00   12:00-4:00 PM

 
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:35AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:35AM (#208827) Journal

    Fifteen minutes to go. Must be nail-biting to not know what has been captured until well after the event.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:51AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:51AM (#208830) Journal

    And, it is done. 13,700 some km. .27 km per pixel. Looking forward to seeing the pics.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:09PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:09PM (#208843)

      I almost took a day off from work, but they'll be nothing to see until well after work.

      Maybe there's just a cloud of debris or a blue screen right now, but nobody is going to know that for hours.

      Last I heard was AoS on earth is 9:02 pm (pm not am) eastern time. But that's just a "I'm alive post flyby" signal and its going to take some days to get real data.

      A bit longer than speed of light, but they have to physically stop taking pictures and repoint the entire craft at the earth so it takes longer.

      I give 50:50 odds the nasa tv stream I watch will be dead from massive overload, bummer.