New Horizons Mission to Pluto

[jmorgan]

FunkyNige said:

jmorgan said:

just found this
http://eyes.nasa.gov

What a great little program, if you run the simulation of the flyby you can see just how busy all the different instruments are during the encounter then 30 minutes later it's just pointing back at Earth sending all the data home.

RALPH is looking at Pluto at the moment

[jmorgan]

This is addictive. LORRI looking at Charon now. Must go out and do other stuff.









One more look......

[FunkyNige]

ash73 said:

How do you bring up the instrument view?

When you first open the program press the 'Eyes on Pluto' box at the bottom and it comes up, but if you close it I have no idea how to get it back without restarting the program.

[jmorgan]

Click "live" I think. Left hand upper side.

[jmorgan]

Just reading the press package.
"At Pluto, because New Horizons is about 3 billion miles from Earth and radio signals
take more than four hours to reach the spacecraft, it can send information at about 2,000 bits per second. It will take 16
months to send the full set of Pluto encounter science data back to Earth."

[jmorgan]

National Geographic Channel has a program on it now.

[jmorgan]

Transmission being sent. 19 Kw power.

[Digger]

Any links to explain the core stability of data transmissions over such a distance and the tech involved?

It's certainly not like my flakey wifi.

[jmorgan]

https://twitter.com/nasanewhorizons

Forget they all have accounts now.

[jmorgan]

Digger said:

Any links to explain the core stability of data transmissions over such a distance and the tech involved?

It's certainly not like my flakey wifi.

Going to be how good the ears are I suppose. There will be all sorts of clever stuff in the transmission chain including maths, no attenuation in space as such but wonder what the beam width is, it will be worse coming this way.

Coming into Earth at 7.8 x 10 to the minus 23 kW. Wonder what it is at the Probe.

Edit. Uplink 500b/sec at 20kW

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

And a thought occurred, Apollo aimed for where the moon would be withe the hardware. I assume the transmissions have to beam for where the craft or earth will be with a four+ hour roundtrip.



This fly along app ain't half running my CPU cores somewhat.


Edit two seeing 1.5 kb/sec coming in from New Horizons.

Edited by jmorgan on Monday 13th July 07:01

[Eric Mc]

You can see a plume from one of Io's volcanoes.

[jmorgan]

Thems cracking images. Less than 24 hours now.

[Galileo]

[Digger]

It appears it's going to be a long wait before we get the hi-res images' data pieced together, from reading the linked article above.

So anything appearing well before then I'm going to take with a pinch of salt!

[jmorgan]

fours and half hours each way, 2016 before the full amount of data is beamed back. I shall catch up with what fun the have after work tomorrow. Signed up for the email ages ago from NASA and they chuck in interesting stuff has it happens. One of them reminded me to look a Juno, one year to go. That will be a good one.

[MrCarPark]

An artist made an educated guess and got it right in 1979!





Source: http://www.cosmographica.com/spaceart/pluto-predic...

[MartG]

jmorgan said:

I shall catch up with what fun the have after work tomorrow.

Don't expect anything new tomorrow - NH will be out of contact for 22 hours during the encounter

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/07/13/clear-sailing...

[jmorgan]

Yeah, didn't think about that. It will want to capture as much as it can before beaming back.

[Gandahar]

According to the BBC there will be something "new", NASA will release the last image taken Monday before it got busy with the pass. They should be releasing it at time of closest approach as a taster.

I think it will be pretty spectacular as will be full globe image.

[funkyrobot]

Cannot wait for this. So much exciting space stuff going on at the moment.