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New Horizons: Overview

New Horizons: Overview. New Horizons was one of the consortia proposals submitted for AO-OSS-01, NASA’s request for flyby mission proposals to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons was selected by NASA on 29 Nov 2001.

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New Horizons: Overview

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  1. New Horizons: Overview New Horizons was one of the consortia proposals submitted for AO-OSS-01, NASA’s request for flyby mission proposals to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons was selected by NASA on 29 Nov 2001. The Senate and House funded New Horizons to enter full-scale development in their FY03 NASA bill. President Bush signed this funding bill on 20 Feb 2003. New Horizons is now in Phase C/D and designated New Frontiers 1.

  2. New HorizonsOverview • Spacecraft: A heritage-base, highly-redundant systems, and carrying a 300 m/s ΔV budget. Mass: ~415 kg. • Encounters: A two-month Jupiter encounter, a five-month Pluto-Charon encounter, then on to explore one or more KBOs. • Payload: 7 distinct instruments, plus EPO Student Dust Counter. • Science Performance: Exceeds the AO specs for all Group 1 objectives; meets or exceeds the all Group 2, and 3 of the 4 Group 3 objectives.

  3. New Horizons Organization Chart

  4. Science Team Overview Programmatic: • Principal Investigator: Alan Stern • Project Scientist:Hal Weaver • Deputy Project Scientist:Leslie Young Other CoIs: Fran Bagenal Rick Binzel Bonnie Buratti Andy Cheng Dale Cruikshank Randy Gladstone Will Grundy Dave Hinson Mihaly Horanyi Don Jennings Ivan Linscott Jeff Moore Dave McComas Bill McKinnon Ralph McNutt Scott Murchie Carolyn Porco Harold Reitsema Dennis Reuter Dave Slater John Spencer Darrel Strobel Mike Summers Len Tyler

  5. Science Team Quick Guide:Mission Responsibilities

  6. Science Team Quick Guide:Key Support

  7. Science Team Quick Guide:Payload Responsibilities

  8. Science Team Quick Guide:Science Theme Team Membership

  9. 1989-2003: The Pluto Mission Labyrinth (DC)

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