The "snowman" completes a full rotation every 15 hours. © NASA/JHU-APL/SWRI
Posted on 01/01/2019 10:15:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
New Horizons acquired gigabytes of photos and other observations during the pass.
It will now send these home over the coming months.
The radio message from the robotic craft was picked up by one of Nasa's big antennas, in Madrid, Spain.
It had taken fully six hours and eight minutes [for the signal] to traverse the great expanse of space between Ultima and Earth...
Controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland greeted the reception of the signal with cheers and applause.
This first radio message contained only engineering information on the status of the spacecraft, but it included confirmation that New Horizons executed its autonomous flyby observations as instructed and that the probe's onboard memory was full...
A later downlink on Tuesday will see some choice images returned to give scientists and the public a taster of what New Horizons saw through its cameras.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
There was an ad on a Roku channel (probably YouTube) the other day, "Supra's Back!", turned out not to be that modem maker. Somewhere I've got a (dry-mounted) poster from Hayes, showing the entire AT set.
The "snowman" completes a full rotation every 15 hours. © NASA/JHU-APL/SWRI
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