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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: 3, Interesting) by Jiro on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:59PM
The whole reason Pluto was demoted from planet in the first place is that Eris was found and it's as big as Pluto, so they had to either demote Pluto or promote Eris. Since Eris is as big as Pluto, it has to count as a "major solar system object" if Pluto does. So no, Pluto is not the last major solar system object to have a spaceship sent by it.