NASA Receives Signal From New Horizons Spacecraft After Historic Flyby 4 Billion Miles From Earth

KTLA ^ | 01/01/2018

[BenLurkin]

Although the flyby occurred at 12:33 a.m. ET on Tuesday, the spacecraft is so far from Earth that the “phone-home” signal didn’t reach us until about 10:30 a.m. ET.

Mission scientists were relieved about the success because there was only one chance to get it right as New Horizons screamed past Ultima at 31,500 miles per hour. This incredible feat was possible because thousands of operations on the spacecraft worked in sync.

“We’ve just accomplished the most distant flyby,” mission operations manager Alice Bowman said. “This science will help us understand the origins of our solar system.”

New Horizons has also sent back a first look at Ultima Thule — taken from half a million miles out, so pardon the pixels.

[EVO X]

They will be receiving the equivalent of 2 high resolution Iphone photos per day. They should have some high resolution photos to show by tomorrow if all went well.

[dragnet2]

The Apollo mission cost roughly $25 billion. For that, we got Tang and a bag of rocks.

BS. It was a series of missions, not one. Get it right. For the ignorant out there like you, we received a whole lot more than that. You obviously missed it all.

[Openurmind]

Right on... I was starting to feel shortchanged. lol

Thank you!

[Revel]

Well look at that. The God’s lost a bowling pin.

[PIF]

Wonder what the hold up is?

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Waiting for more data and image processing likely.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Dang, somebody harpooned a Shmoo.

[Textide]

It takes about 6 hours for one way communication at this point. It disn’t transmit anything at the instant of its closest approach, but several hours later.

[Openurmind]

Tang is still around, what I miss are the space food sticks. They were pretty much like the high protein bars of today and tasted the same.

[EVO X]

You are welcome. Hope they have some fantastic photos like they had with Pluto.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“BS. It was a series of missions, not one. Get it right. For the ignorant out there like you, we received a whole lot more than that. You obviously missed it all.”

Pretty sure I mentioned the Tang.

...and it sucked.

[minnesota_bound]

NASA Receives Signal From New Horizons Spacecraft After Historic Flyby 4 Billion Miles From Earth

Yet I cannot get a decent signal from a cell tower 3 miles away....

[PIF]

“You get what you pay for.” Not always.
The Apollo mission cost roughly $25 billion.
For that, we got Tang and a bag of rocks.

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We won't mention the huge leap in medical equipment nor the miniaturization of chips that now make computer that fit in your pocket and are unbelievably more powerful that any in those days. You'll notice that Tang was made in 1957 by General foods not NASA

General topic list:

Health and medicine
2.1 Infrared ear thermometers
2.2 Ventricular assist device
2.3 LASIK
2.4 Artificial limbs
2.5 Light-emitting diodes in medical therapies
2.6 Invisible braces
2.7 Scratch-resistant lenses
2.8 Space blanket
2.9 3D foods printing

Transportation
3.1 Aircraft anti-icing systems
3.2 Highway safety
3.3 Improved radial tires
3.4 Chemical detection

Public safety
4.1 Video enhancing and analysis systems
4.2 Landmine Removal
4.3 Fire-resistant reinforcement
4.4 Firefighting equipment
4.5 Shock Absorbers for buildings

Consumer, home, and recreation
5.1 Temper foam
5.2 Enriched baby food
5.3 Portable cordless vacuums
5.4 Freeze drying
5.5 Space age swimsuit
5.6 Digital image sensor
5.7 Air-scrubbers

Environmental and agricultural resources
6.1 Water purification
6.2 Solar Cells
6.3 Pollution remediation
6.4 Correcting for GPS signal errors
6.5 Water location

Computer technology
7.1 Structural analysis software
7.2 Remotely controlled ovens
7.3 NASA Visualization Explorer
7.4 OpenStack
7.5 Software catalog

Industrial productivity
8.1 Powdered lubricants
8.2 Improved mine safety
8.3 Food safety

AShort list

Another much longer list - see above list

[PIF]

Apollo was canceled because it was so expensive.

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Apollo was cancelled due to failure of political will as was Project Orion before it. Money was not the issue.

[daler]

[PIF]

See my post at 52

Some people are not just ignorant but willfully ignorant ...

[Openurmind]

Me too... Because as it is they were still not sure if it one object or two in a binary orbit with each other. I am VERY curious in this aspect.

So many “celestial and space events” are turning out to be duds the last few years. Be nice to actually get some decent stuff from all this for a change. :)

Thanks again!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

These types of lists are a huge stretch of wishful thinking.

As an example, here is a history of LASIK, from The LASIK Vision Institute:

https://www.lasikvisioninstitute.com/the-history-of-lasik-surgery/

I appreciate the correction about Tang predating the Apollo mission.

That leaves $24 billion for a bag of rocks and bragging rights for the moon landing.

Best

[dragnet2]

Willfully and brutally ignorant..That fits.

[dragnet2]

The Apollo mission cost roughly $25 billion. For that, we got Tang and a bag of rocks.

Based on your own comments, the only rocks you got are in your head.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Based on your own comments, the only rocks you got are in your head.

Based on your comments, you are histrionic.

Ah, well. Happy New Year.