http://www.plutotoday.com/ Pluto Today en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 9:30:01 PST kcowing@spaceref.com mkboucher@spaceref.com Copyright 2006, SpaceRef Interactive Inc. http://images.spaceref.com/pluto.today.sm.jpg http://www.plutotoday.com/ 112 59 Pluto Today - a service of SpaceRef http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=33582 Today New Horizons is 15.96 astronomical units (2.39 billion kilometers, or 1.48 billion miles) from the Sun - halfway between Earth's location on launch day in Jan 2006, and Pluto's place during New Horizons' encounter with the planet in July 2015. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 8:41:33 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=30163 NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant <strike>dwarf</strike> planet Pluto. Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:10:52 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=30133 NASA will hold a news media telecon at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 4, to discuss the latest Hubble images of the distant <strike>dwarf</strike> planet Pluto. Mon, 1 Feb 2010 18:27:29 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32981 New Horizons is now more than 1,400 days into its 9.5-year journey and well past 15 AU (astronomical units) from the Sun. We still have about 2,050 days ahead of us before we reach the Pluto system. Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:02:37 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32281 We put New Horizons back into hibernation last week, on Aug. 27. This event signaled the completion of our third active spacecraft and payload checkout, which occupied us for most of July and August. Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:54:50 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32280 The New Horizons mission team has closed out a successful summer workout, putting its Pluto-bound spacecraft back into hibernation Aug. 27 after seven weeks of functional tests and system checks. Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:49:59 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=31968 New Horizons is up from the longest nap of its cruise to Pluto, as operators "woke" the spacecraft from hibernation yesterday for its annual series of checkouts and tests. Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:25:39 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=31785 The work is fun, no doubt there; but it never ends on this mission of exploration -- particularly in the summer, when we conduct our annual spacecraft checkouts. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:44:14 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=28259 Things are going well out in the cold space between Saturn and Uranus where New Horizons is now. We're deep in planning for our spacecraft's annual checkout this summer, which begins on July 7. Thu, 21 May 2009 16:33:55 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=28183 The team guiding the first mission to Pluto is fondly remembering Venetia Burney Phair, the "little girl" who named the ninth planet when it was discovered nearly 80 years ago. Mrs. Phair died April 30 at her home in Epsom, England, at age 90. Mon, 11 May 2009 14:38:30 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27828 NASA Mission Madness: Send New Horizons to Round 3 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:37:05 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=30918 2009 - after 38 months and almost 2 billion kilometers of flight, New Horizons has completed precisely one-third of the days in its journey to Pluto. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:10:23 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27794 Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune's 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft checkout last fall. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:23:44 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27294 As the new year takes root, the New Horizons team is about to celebrate the third anniversary of our launch on January 19, 2006. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 9:34:52 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=30150 After an intense annual checkout - more like a deep-space workout - New Horizons is getting some well-deserved rest. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:00:55