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Atlas 5 Launch Of Pluto Mission New Horizions Delayed Five Days
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 18, 2005 NASA has delayed the launch of its mission to Pluto and the Kuipers beyond until January 17 to enable additional inspections of the Lockheed Martin built EELV class Atlas 5 rocket. According to Florida Today's Flame Trench NASA continues to push ahead with the launch campaign moving the spacecraft from its payload facility to the launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission must launch before February 14 otherwise wait until 2007 before the next Jupiter window opens. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will be the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moon Charon. No spacecraft has ever visited the planet, and not even the Hubble Space Telescope can spot details on its rocky, icy surface. Yet with the New Horizons mission, now in development and planning for liftoff January 2006 from Launch Complex 41 at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA looks to unlock one of the solar system's last, great planetary secrets. After launch aboard the Atlas 5, New Horizons will cross the entire span of the solar system -- in record time -- and conduct flyby studies of Pluto and its moon, Charon, in 2015. Ahead of possible further encounters with other Kuiper objects beyond in the domain of the 'outerplanets'. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Pluto at John Hopkin SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express The million outer planets of a star called Sol
Scientists Show Pluto To Be Colder Than It Should Be
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jan 5, 2006Mercury is boiling. Mars is freezing. The Earth is just right. When it comes to the temperatures of the planets, it makes sense that they should get colder the farther away they are from the Sun. But then there is Pluto. It has been suspected that this remote world might be even colder than it should be. Smithsonian scientists now have shown this to be true. |
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