new horizons mission to pluto

[alien42]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: HN
wow. fastest spacecraft ever launched; can reach the moon in 9 hours. amazing.

yeah, it will only take one year to get to pluto.

Not close. 13 months to get to Jupiter.

doh, too quick to post

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: cirrhosis
Funny...a decade to get to Pluto.

I wouldn't be surprised if five to seven years from now NASA comes up with a new engine that cuts the ETA in half. Imagine if they launch another probe that gets there before the first.

isnt that what happend with saturn and the cassini probe? they lauched that one in like 1987 and then another in 1995 and arrived within months of each other?

 

[HN]

Originally posted by: cirrhosis
Funny...a decade to get to Pluto.

I wouldn't be surprised if five to seven years from now NASA comes up with a new engine that cuts the ETA in half. Imagine if they launch another probe that gets there before the first.

the more the merrier i say. hope to see warp drives in my lifetime

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: cirrhosis
Funny...a decade to get to Pluto.

I wouldn't be surprised if five to seven years from now NASA comes up with a new engine that cuts the ETA in half. Imagine if they launch another probe that gets there before the first.

isnt that what happend with saturn and the cassini probe? they lauched that one in like 1987 and then another in 1995 and arrived within months of each other?

Only things to Saturn that were close to each other were the Voyager probes. They were 9 months apart, one in November 1980 and the other in August 1981.
Voyager 2 was launched first, but Voyager 1 was on a better trajectory, so it made the trip to Saturn first.

Cassini launched in 1997, and entered orbit of Saturn on July 1st, 2004.

 

[Syrch]

man, i wishthey would put me on that thing....10 year vacaton FTW...well 20 year if it comes back.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Damnit! No sound.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Damnit! No sound.

There is, just very little.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Ahhh.....

 

[FrustratedUser]

Hmmmm.... possible wind problem.

 

[everman]

go...go...go...

 

[alien42]

everything is a go barring the last minute decision that the winds are too strong.

 

[Drakkon]

lol go go go go go go go

 

[FrustratedUser]

T4 min and counting

 

[Jeff7]

Anyone with NASA TV and a TV tuner is welcome to record this.

New Horizons is Go.

 

[alien42]

no go - aborted

 

[FrustratedUser]

No go!!! Aborted!

 

[Jeff7]

ugh

 

[SilentZero]

ABORTED!!!

 

[everman]

doh

 

[ironcrotch]

scrubbed for the day

 

[FrustratedUser]

damn

 

[Drakkon]

awwwww

wtf is a redline monitor fault?

 

[JRich]

JUST HIT THE BUTTON!!!!!!!! LOL!

 

[alien42]

till tomorrow...

 

[HN]

ah well. we'll always have Paris.