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