I can't wait to see the results of this 10-year old mission:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ho...whale-shaped-features-pluto/story?id=32299500

And to think that they lost communications with the craft for about an hour a few days ago! The engineers must've been pulling their hair off and devouring their own nails trying to figure out what happened!

 

I can't wait to see the results of this 10-year old mission:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ho...whale-shaped-features-pluto/story?id=32299500

And to think that they lost communications with the craft for about an hour a few days ago! The engineers must've been pulling their hair off and devouring their own nails trying to figure out what happened!

I read it went into safe mode when the main computer was overloaded compressing data and running command sequence calculations, had a deadlock that caused the watchdog to put the bird into save mode to recover. I'm sure they have the 'battle short' switch on for the flyby mission.

 

I read it when into safe mode when the main computer was overloaded compressing data and running commands sequence calculations, had a deadlock that caused the watchdog to put the bird into save mode to recover. I'm sure they have the 'battle short' switch on for the flyby mission.

And my respects to the team that wrote the firmware... which was responsible for rebooting the thing if something unexpected (like this) ever happened. Visualizing all possible scenarios is an enormous challenge.

 

The latest update from New Scientist:

http://www.newscientist.com/article...historic-new-horizons-flyby.html#.VZ_zMLVqLD0

And here's the report by Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pluto-flyby-begins-nasa-probe-enters-encounter-phase/

 

4 days
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php

 

The LORRI Imager: http://web.archive.org/web/20100808073101/http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-lorri.pdf

The EPU uses a RTX2010RH processor and runs FORTH code.

 

4 days
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php

Great links, thanks!
And that Lorri instrument... what a beautiful piece of equipment

 

Great links, thanks!
And that Lorri instrument... what a beautiful piece of equipment

They all are so cool.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft/Payload.php

 

Check this video with the latest updates:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/broadcasts/NHWebcastJuly10_640x360.mp4

 

A long way from home.

November 4, 2005 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida

 

A long way from home.

That pic is invaluable for anyone trying to get a feel of the size of the spacecraft, thanks!

 

Houston, We Have Geology

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=211

 

Houston, We Have Geology

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=211

Yeah!... I stayed up late last night looking at this link you just posted

 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/new-horizons-pluto-fly-by-live-blog/

 

The wait is over... the first HR pics look spectacular!

 

The wait is over... the first HR pics look spectacular!

 

Too late for that, my friend... I had already posted it in the jokes thread....

 

I shooda noticed that I was just bouncing back your own post, but some people might like it in context.

 

A very nice summary of articles by Scientific American covering the New Horizon's Pluto encounter success:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/report/a-guide-to-the-pluto-flyby-success/

 

Gracias for posting all that nsas

BTW, intrigued now: pigs, can fly or not?