Awesome teaser for New Horizons flyby of Pluto

[disappoint]

At a blazing fast 1 kilobit/s (125 bytes/s) 😛

They should have made it faster.

Sent another probe that sits stationary nearby. New Horizons sends it data at a fast rate using wireless, then that unit sends data to Earth using a powerful enough laser.

 

[postmortemIA]

Interesting images, Pluto looks like real planet.

 

[zinfamous]

In 16 months the US Presidential elections will be over and there will be a new resident in the White House. ^_^

sweet. That means we can blame the new guy--or lady--when the pictures come back all fuzzy.

 

[notposting]

sweet. That means we can blame the new guy--or lady--when the pictures come back all fuzzy.

Nah. It launched in 2006. Blame Bush, right? 😛

 

[sportage]

 

[PottedMeat]

NASA Deep Space Network real time status

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html


sending commands?

SOURCE
NEW HORIZONS
TYPE
DATA
DATA RATE
2.00 kb/sec
FREQUENCY
7.18 GHz
POWER TRANSMITTED
20.10 kW

'hey i'm still here'

DOWN SIGNAL
SOURCE
VOYAGER 1
TYPE
DATA
DATA RATE
159.00 b/sec
FREQUENCY
8.42 GHz
POWER RECEIVED
4.50 x 10-23 kW

1 megabit mars->earth

DOWN SIGNAL
SOURCE
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER
TYPE
DATA
DATA RATE
1000.00 kb/sec
FREQUENCY
8.44 GHz
POWER RECEIVED
4.14 x 10-55 kW

 

[PliotronX]

NASA Deep Space Network real time status

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html


sending commands?



'hey i'm still here'



1 megabit mars->earth

Faster than the average American broadband connection at the time it was launched and it is just a little farther out than 14 miles out of town where my friends can't get anything but poopy wireless broadband.'

Pretty jazzed about the results the little probe finds.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

They should have made it faster.

Sent another probe that sits stationary nearby. New Horizons sends it data at a fast rate using wireless, then that unit sends data to Earth using a powerful enough laser.

Twice the cost & twice the stuff that can fail.
Cool idea to think about twin explorers

 

[Fritzo]

NASA Deep Space Network real time status

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html


sending commands?



'hey i'm still here'



1 megabit mars->earth

Wow- 2Kbs is about half the speed of a 56K modem.

 

[Ns1]

NASA Deep Space Network real time status

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

That link is badass w/ the voyager.

 

[IronWing]

Awesome. Many months of downloading to get all of the data though.

Finding a film mailer ain't easy out there.

 

[Jeff7]

Wow.
Thar be mountains on them thar hills.

 

[SKORPI0]

Views of Pluto Through the Years-- http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/views-of-pluto-through-the-years

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

 

[Eug]

 

[Charmonium]

That's really cute ^^^

 

[BUTCH1]

NASA rocks, job well done!

 

[Jeff7]

Oh come on, NH did not ignore Pluto at all.

There was some serious ogling going on there.

 

[CZroe]

Oh come on, NH did not ignore Pluto at all.

There was some serious ogling going on there.

They should show the heart break, NH reappear on the other side, headlines on Earth ("Pluto is geologically active!") and then Pluto absolutely surrounded by probes/company. 🙂

 

[KeithTalent]

Lol awww. 😀

KT

 

[Thump553]

Anyone catch Nova last night about New Horizons? Great episode, more like the classic days of Nova rather than the bogus reality show/Discovery Channel bent they have adopted in the last few years. Pretty inclusive and current too-they had stuff in it from July 14th.

 

[dainthomas]

Anyone catch Nova last night about New Horizons? Great episode, more like the classic days of Nova rather than the bogus reality show/Discovery Channel bent they have adopted in the last few years. Pretty inclusive and current too-they had stuff in it from July 14th.

Missed that! I wonder if it's available online.

 

[zinfamous]

Anyone catch Nova last night about New Horizons? Great episode, more like the classic days of Nova rather than the bogus reality show/Discovery Channel bent they have adopted in the last few years. Pretty inclusive and current too-they had stuff in it from July 14th.

Yeah, it was cool. After, they broadcast a non-Nova show about the European comet-lander thingy that happened a few years ago. This was also really cool, but I love how it ended:

The entire episode devoted to the complicated landing and solving the potential rebound issue, where it would land, what kind of data it would collect. All of the tension leads up to the landing moment, and they nail it, everyone is so happy. Then, a ~5 second text over while everyone is celebrating: "Unfortunately, blahblah landed on an unexposed side of the comet. After collecting some data, it promptly shut off. Hopefully the lander will be exposed to sunlight at some point in the next several years and turn back on." The end.

lol.

Missed that! I wonder if it's available online.

I think Nova is always available on PBS's website. But they also rerun episodes fairly regularly; though schedule depends on your local affiliate.

 

[zinfamous]

This is great, and sad. Poor Pluto. Probably doesn't even know it's no longer a "real" planet.

 

[Spacehead]

Seven weeks after New Horizons sped past the Pluto system to study Pluto and its moons – previously unexplored worlds – the mission team will begin intensive downlinking of the tens of gigabits of data the spacecraft collected and stored on its digital recorders. The process moves into high gear on Saturday, Sept. 5, with the entire downlink taking about one year to complete.

Lots of new & awesome images coming in like this one 😎

More here