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The NASA New Horizons spacecraft – the fastest robotic explorer ever built – is celebrating its sixth anniversary flying through space. The probe is heading for Pluto, but won't get there until 2015. At this point, all systems are nominal, and everything is going according to plan.Officials from the ... |
20 January 2012
10:41 GMT |
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As the fastest spacecraft ever built is heading towards Pluto, mission controllers met with planetary scientists to discuss how to safeguard the New Horizons probe from instant destruction as it reaches the dwarf planet. This is scheduled to occur in July 2015.
While the object and its four moons are well understoo... |
29 November 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Astronomers interested in discovering whether an ocean lies just underneath the crusty surface of Pluto have to wait for about 3 more years. The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is currently on its way to the dwarf planet, and it is scheduled to fly past the object in 2015.
This probe is the fastest ever built. Launche... |
22 November 2011
03:01 GMT |
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This impressive montage of Jupiter and its moon Io first appeared on the cover of the Science magazine on its October 12, 2007, issue. It was made up of images collected by the NASA New Horizons space probe, which is currently on its way to Pluto. It will reach its destination in early 2015.
The spacecraft carried o... |
16 November 2011
03:04 GMT |
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As astronomers count down the years until a NASA spacecraft makes its way to the Kuiper Belt, many experts are currently making predictions about what the probe will find once it flies past the orbit of Pluto. The object is the cause of a dispute that has been raging on for about 5 years now.
Members of the Inter... |
6 September 2011
03:52 GMT |
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About five years ago, astronomers demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, but the move – while still controversial – did not decrease researchers' interest in the small celestial body. When the NASA New Horizons space probe reaches it in 205, the spacecraft will change our view of the rocky wo... |
24 August 2011
10:12 GMT |
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According to the latest theoretical calculations, the dwarf planet Pluto should have a dust ring companion revolving around it. Scientists base their proposal on a computer model that analyzes the object's behavior in orbit.If such a structure is found and confirmed, then the discovery would be very important to... |
8 August 2011
04:44 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope can add another impressive achievement under its belt. Experts using the observatory to check for rings around the dwarf planet Pluto announce the discovery of a new moon orbiting the distant object, the fourth one so far. Pluto is known to have one large moon called Charon, which is around... |
20 July 2011
09:51 GMT |
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The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is currently on its way to the dwarf planet Pluto, at the outskirts of our solar system. The object, located in the Kuiper Belt, will be just the first stop for the probe. Now, the general public has a chance to help experts decided on other targets of interest. The robot is scheduled... |
22 June 2011
09:34 GMT |
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NASA is proud to announce that its New Horizons spacecraft has finally passed the orbit of Uranus, on its long trek to Pluto, one of the farthest planets in the solar system. The probe is due to reach its destination sometime in 2015, mission plans indicate.
This major mission milestone was reached on Saturday, Ma... |
19 March 2011
05:44 GMT |
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According to officials at the American space agency, the New Horizons space probe is currently being prepared for yet another important milestone in tis mission, its flyby of the gas giant Uranus.The event will take place on March 2011, as the spacecraft heads towards Pluto at a speed of nearly 36,000 miles per hour ... |
17 December 2010
10:02 GMT |
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Experts at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) announce that the NASA New Horizons space probe passed the halfway mark in the number of days from launch to Pluto encounter on Sunday. The mark was reached at 3:24 UT on October 17, and this means that the spacecraft now has fewer days of f... |
19 October 2010
08:58 GMT |
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A dust counter that was developed at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) has reached an impressive record, when it became the most distant working instrument of its kind from Earth.The tool is installed on the NASA New Horizons space prove, which is currently more than halfway on its trip to reach the distant... |
13 October 2010
11:03 GMT |
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The most well-studied object in the Kuiper Belt is undoubtedly Pluto, a body that was a couple of years ago demoted from the rank of full-fledged planet to that of dwarf planet. The object features a large Moon called Charon, as well as two smaller satellites, dubbed Nix and Hydra. The latter two were only discovered... |
20 May 2010
08:46 GMT |
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On February 25, the NASA New Horizons mission finally reached one of the major milestones of its flight – namely exceeding half the distance to its target, the dwarf planet Pluto. The spacecraft, which is one of the few being propelled by a cylindrical radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG, carries with... |
27 February 2010
03:17 GMT |
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First seen on March 19, 1915, the planet Pluto has been the subject of much debate even before it was discovered. While analyzing perturbations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, astronomers hypothesized that another celestial body, dubbed Planet X, must be influencing the two. After Pluto was found, the tenth obje... |
18 February 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Scientists operating the Hubble Space Telescope have recently conducted a new series of observations on Pluto, one of the most distant planets from the Sun. The images show the dwarf planet in about the same color it would appear to an astronaut approaching it on a spacecraft. But it's precisely this level of de... |
5 February 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are proud today to announce an impressive achievement of the New Horizons space probe, the fastest spacecraft every built. After years of traveling to the boundaries of the solar system, the instrument is finally closer to Pluto – its primary target – than it is to ... |
30 December 2009
06:49 GMT |
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