To: Simon Green
Today the team beamed out commands to fine-tune New Horizons’ trajectory using the spacecraft’s navigational thrusters (which, by the way, were built at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash.). It took more than six hours for the commands to reach the probe at the speed of light, at a rate of 1,000 bits per second. I'm amazed the spacecraft can receive at that bandwidth, given the incredible distance.
Remarkable technology.
2 posted on
12/02/2018 8:51:18 PM PST by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Simon Green
piano-sized spacecraft Grand or spinet?
To: Simon Green
SO.... by this time they should know if they were successful. Any news on that ?
4 posted on
12/02/2018 8:55:16 PM PST by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Simon Green
New Horizons has delivered the goods. The pictures back from Pluto were awesome.
Further, the probe went into "safe mode" less than a week before Pluto's flyby - the team kept their cool and made the flyby work flawlessly...AND they aren't afraid to wave the American flag.
5 posted on
12/02/2018 8:57:29 PM PST by
DoodleBob
To: Simon Green
Amazing!! And NASA must certainly be boosting Muslims’ egos
6 posted on
12/02/2018 9:09:26 PM PST by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: Simon Green
It’s exciting to see something get that far out there. Thanks for the news!
10 posted on
12/02/2018 9:41:46 PM PST by
bluejean
(I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
To: Simon Green
To: Simon Green
To: Simon Green
One of the things I thought was neat about the New Horizons probe was that it was powered by Plutonium. Uranium was named after Uranus which was recently discovered at the time (The Constitution is about as old). When the next element was created, #93, it was named Neptunium. Since #94 was next planet it got the name Plutonium.
Although Pluto lost its lofty place in the sky as a planet, as an element it has the higher honor. Long after mankind has moved to other stars that element will retain that name . That Plutonium powered the first visit to Pluto highlights the honor!
14 posted on
12/02/2018 11:10:05 PM PST by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
To: Simon Green
We’ve been watching astronomer Spike Psarris videos on astronomy on YouTube. Amazing information!
To: Simon Green
In the 1930 or so movie, “Ultima Thule” was the term the Romans used for the Scottish island of St. Kilda. “The edge of the world.”
19 posted on
12/03/2018 4:03:28 AM PST by
yarddog
To: Simon Green
I think I played this game back in the 80’s ... is Lord British there?
Or was he seduced by the wench?
22 posted on
12/03/2018 7:03:20 AM PST by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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