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curiousuburb
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2015-07-16, 03:09

Firstly, a correction...

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Originally Posted by curiousuburb View Post
We won't start getting data back until many hours after closest approach... in fact, there will be sooo much data, some instruments will only send brief headlines/synopses... the full data download may take weeks.
Minor miscalculation on my part. At the July 14 (morning) press briefing they explained that low angle DSN data transfer is only 1/4 as fast as it is when overhead but still only averages 56k.

New Horizons is now more than a Million miles beyond Pluto.

They captured sooo much data during closest approach that full data download will take 16 months

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Telemetry download approximately 9PM EDT

Follow the path of the spacecraft in coming days in real time with a visualization of the actual trajectory data, using NASA’s online Eyes on Pluto. (<-Sadly only available for Mac or PC, not mobile devices)
Although the Eyes 3D visualisation doesn't work on mobile, they do have a nifty web app showing the DSN status (detailing which antenna is communicating with which spacecraft), which does work on mobile... http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

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