New Horizons / Pluto Flyby

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herbertk

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Doesn't look like there is a post for this yet which surprised me..

Finding this fascinating :

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/

Here you can see the actual dishes used for getting the data (look for NHPC):

http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

Nice Article on the data portion :

http://gizmodo.com/why-itll-take-new-horizons-16-months-to-send-us-this-we-1717769317

As a result, NASA reckons we’ll be able to boost downlink speeds to something in the neighborhood of 4,000 bits per second over the next few days.
Click to expand...

And I thought my link was slow! haha
 
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