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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: 5, Informative) by martyb on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:11PM
Although the New Horizons probe is rightfully receiving a lot of attention right now, I'd like to point out that it would be useless were it not for NASA's Deep Space Network [nasa.gov] (DSN):
There's much more information on the site including descriptions of the 70-, 34-, and 26-meter antennas. To get an idea of just how much space science is going on at any given moment, there's https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html [nasa.gov] — "Deep Space Network Now" which provides visual depictions of the various antennas and the probes with which they are communicating. Data on each antenna's operations (azimuth/elevation, wind, data rate, power level, etc.) are also provided. As I write this, comms are currently taking place with: Maven, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Dawn, Mars Express, Chandra, Mars Odyssey, Voyager 1, AND Voyager 2!
So, go ahead and admire the images and other data that are received from all these missions, but also give a nod to the folks who make it possible for us to actually receive that data, as well as transmit commands to those far-distant probes!
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:16PM
It looks like Canberra has acquired New Horizon's carrier and is now sending data to the probe.
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