Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007dps....39.1501s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #15.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.436
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission was launched on a Jupiter Gravity Assist (JGA) trajectory on 19 January 2006. Jupiter closest approach occurred on 28 February 2007. The primary objective of the JGA was to target the spacecraft to its Pluto system flyby on 14 July 2015. This was successfully accomplished. The secondary objectives of the JGA were to (i) exercise the spacecraft and instrument payload with a real world flyby prior to Pluto, and to (ii) to conduct scientific observations of the Jupiter system. Both secondary objectives were also accomplished. Over 700 scientific observations were conducted, and all but a tiny fraction were carried out successfully. A few observations were however lost to high radiation levels which reset the Alice UV spectrometer a number of times near closest approach. Observations of Jupiter itself, its magnetosphere, satellites, aurora, and rings were conducted over a span of time from January to June 2007. In this talk we will present an overview of the New Horizons Jupiter flyby and enumerate some of the scientific highlights that early data analysis have revealed.
Alan Stern S.
Horizons Science New
Mission Team
Moore Joshua
Spencer J. J.
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