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Post by rubl on Aug 5, 2017 16:16:48 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Sept 23, 2017 19:23:51 GMT 7
Following spacecrafts flying through space is like watching paint dry but even slower. Since I started this topic nearly two months ago New Horizons has flown another 62 million kilometers and still needs 15 more months to reach 2014 MU69 "September 12, 2017 Hibernation Over, New Horizons Continues Its Kuiper Belt Cruise A long summer break ended for NASA's New Horizons on Sept. 11, as the spacecraft "woke" itself on schedule from a five-month hibernation period. Signals confirming that New Horizons had executed on-board computer commands to exit hibernation reached mission operations at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, via NASA's Deep Space Network station in Madrid, Spain, at 12:55 p.m. EDT. Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman of APL confirmed that the spacecraft was in good health and operating normally, with all systems coming back online as expected." pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20170912 |
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Post by rubl on Oct 13, 2018 11:09:57 GMT 7
New Horizon's next goal 2014 MU69 was renamed a while ago to "Ultima Thule". As of writing this NH is about 99,841,750 kilometers from the rock and on track to pass on January 1st, 2019. "New Horizons Sets Up for New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule NASA's New Horizons spacecraft carried out a short engine burn on Oct. 3 to home in on the location and timing of its New Year's flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Word from the spacecraft that it had successfully performed the 3½-minute maneuver reached mission operations at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, at around 10:20 p.m. EDT. The maneuver slightly tweaked the spacecraft's trajectory and bumped its speed by 2.1 meters per second – just about 4.6 miles per hour – keeping it on track to fly past Ultima (officially named 2014 MU69) at 12:33 am EST on Jan. 1, 2019." pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20181005 |
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Post by rubl on Dec 31, 2018 13:21:17 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Jan 1, 2019 22:29:54 GMT 7
Well, the New Horizon spacecraft flew past 2014MU69, nickname Ultima Thule and first signal to confirm received. It will take 20 months before all data gathered will have been received on Earth. Lots of data and already more than six lighthours away from Earth. So far no traces of BEMs  |
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Post by rubl on May 27, 2019 13:07:26 GMT 7
It's 147 days ago the New Horizon spacecraft flew past 2014MU69 (AKA Ultima Thule). By now 25% of all data collected during the fly-by has been received on Earth. "The PI's Perspective: We Made the Cover of the 'Rolling Stone' (for Nerds)! The first published results from New Horizons' flyby of 2014 MU69 appeared May 17 in the journal Science. The New Horizons spacecraft and its seven scientific instruments are performing well, with no problems. New Horizons is now more than 100 million miles past our first KBO flyby target, 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule, or UT), and plowing deeper into the Kuiper Belt every day. Estimates are that we won't leave the Kuiper Belt for eight more years. Meanwhile, after almost four months of intensive data downlink to Earth, about 25% of all the bits collected during the flyby are now on the ground. More data comes back every week." pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Perspectives.php?page=piPerspective_05_23_2019The article published in the Science magazine is publicly available, here science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6441/eaaw9771 |
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