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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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:14AM
UTC? 13:15am? What kind of fukcing faggotiy eurofag shit is that? What time iz it in actual time? You know what, fuck you. I don wanna watch yer fucking liberal ass bullshit anyhow. Bunch of fucking spacenut nerdass faggots who never busted a nut in a woman for sure.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Tork on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:20AM
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:31AM
Closing time was a half hour ago in EDT. Playas who just left the clubs be drivin drunk to the pussy pad with fine hotties passed out in the back seat, right now. You envious, bro?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:45AM
A pussy pad is a place? Yeah, no.
You're on a different road, I'm in the Milky Way
You want me down on Earth, but I am up in space
You're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switch
You're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:31AM
I think you're on the wrong site. Head on over to the green one [slashdot.org] where someone will give a damn what you have to say.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:36AM
Five hours fifteen minutes till. This is the last major object in solar system to have a spaceship investigate it. (Notice how I neatly avoided the whole "planet" thing?) Can't wait, even though we will have to as the data will take a long time to send back to Earth. Goodspeed, New Horizons!
(Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Tuesday July 14 2015, @08:22AM
Looking at the pictures, Pluto totally looks like a planet to me. I will call it "planet" from this day on. Privily.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:19AM
Have you seen the pics of Ceres? Looks like a planet, too. And it even has a moon . . .wait a minute, that's no moon, it's an Earth space probe!
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:07PM
My question: If it's a dwarf planet, where are all the dwarfs?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:13PM
Underground, don't you ever play Dwarf Fortress? Nothing good can ever come from living on the surface.
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:40AM
And, Google has an animation on their homepage. Cute.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday July 14 2015, @10:56AM
I haven't seen a google animation for ages since I switched to https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
(Score: 2) by No Respect on Tuesday July 14 2015, @10:44AM
I had a lot to say 8 hours ago about this. Too bad I'm about falling asleep now. Better late than never I guess.
An American spacecraft will make history this morning. Something we, not only as a country but as humans who normally like to kill each other, can be proud of. The images captured in the next 2 hours will be THE images of Pluto in every imaginable reference for a hundred years (at least).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:50PM
Judging by NASA's (lack of) funding, whatever pictures we have today of anything in the solar system will be the *final* pictures...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday July 14 2015, @04:05PM
100 years? Mission cost is about $650 million so far. Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity cost $2.5 billion. I can imagine another trip to Pluto within the next 3 decades, perhaps even an orbiter.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:20AM
Not sure how to get here from the links provided, but this is the best page (with all the images):
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/ [jhuapl.edu]
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:35AM
Fifteen minutes to go. Must be nail-biting to not know what has been captured until well after the event.
(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.
(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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