POGUETRY IN MOTION (RED) (RMST)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Cassini-huygens, 2001 Mars Odyssey, New Horizons, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Deep Impact, Mars Express, Hayabusa, Rosetta, Stardust, Dawn, Venus Express, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, Messenger, Stereo, Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9, International Cometary Explorer, Advanced Composition Explorer. Excerpt: New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. NASA may also approve flybys of one or more other Kuiper Belt Objects. New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006 directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory. It had an Earth-relative velocity of about 16.26 km/s or 58,536 km/h (10.10 mi/s or 36,373 mi/h) after its last engine shut down. Thus, it left Earth at the fastest launch speed ever recorded for a man-made object. It flew by Jupiter on February 28, 2007 at 5:43:40 UTC and Saturn's orbit on June 8, 2008 at 10:00 UTC. It will arrive at Pluto on July 14, 2015 and then continue into the Kuiper belt. New Horizons on the launchpadNew Horizons is the last mission in NASA's New Frontiers mission category, larger and more expensive than Discovery missions but smaller than the Flagship Program. The cost of the mission (including spacecraft and instrument development, launch vehicle, mission operations, data analysis, and education/public outreach) is approximately $650 million over 15 years (from 2001 to 2016). An earlier proposed Pluto mission Pluto Kuiper Express was cancelled by NASA in 2000 for budgetary reasons. Further information relating to an overview with historical context can be found at the IEEE website and gives further background and details, with... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=390905