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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: 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?
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(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.