@hangyutang: I meant fastest craft launched from Earth. The Voyager I is the fastest interstellar craft cause of the gravity boosts its gotten during its flight. I researched the Helios crafts after you mentioned it. 150000 mph is insane...no doubt the Suns gravity had a lot to do with it xD
@2DJ1006742 It is epic, but it's no the fastest spacecraft. That's Helios. It has the fastest launch speed, however. Enough speed, in fact, to escape the solar system (which it will do). But no matter what, it's still awesome.
Now that Atlas V added SRB's to their line up, its only a matter of time until "Ka-BOOOOM, we have experienced an anomaly, we are looking closely at the situation!"
Wow, I think about how long this has been flying for and how much longer it will be. When I go to sleep at night, it's flying, when I go to school, it's flying, etc. This is one amazing project and I can't wait for the pictures that come back. I have so many questions when thinking about this though. Where does the fuel come from? How do people billions of miles away control something like this? Just amazing to think about the possibilities and what pluto looks like and what else may be beyond.
And since New Horizons mission plan doesn't include any gravitational slingshots around any planet and it takes a direct path to Pluto, it needed that much initial velocity (hence the record of fastest velocity imparted on a spacecraft by its launch vehicle). Also another thing, All spacecrafts do slow down a bit cause of the presence of interplanetary matter and also because of solar radiation pressure. And also there is the 'pioneer anamoly' to consider too.
Actually, its a misconception that New Horizons is the fastest man-made probe. This is wrong, Voyager 1 continues to be and will always be the fastest man made object moving trough Space. But what New Horizons was noted for was that it had the Fastest Velocity injected to it by the Launch Vehicle. Even Voyager 1 was not put into orbit with that much speed, but Voyager got that final speed because of the gravitational slingshots it got from both Jupiter and Saturn.
@blablubb12345 Helios 1,2 has the top speed record, yes. But I wasn't talking about the speed record. I was talking about the current velocity of all man made probes and which is the fastest now. Thats why I gave the list of current velocity for some spacecrafts instead of their top speeds.
About the Jupiter gravity assist, I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me :)
@blablubb12345@blablubb12345 Helios 1,2 has the top speed record, yes. But I wasn't talking about the speed record. I was talking about the current velocity of all man made probes and which is the fastest now. Thats why I gave the list of current velocity for some spacecrafts instead of their top speeds.
About the Jupiter gravity assist, I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me :)
@bestamerica All the missiles you name are OLD! The small fins on a Saturn V were the result of a major debate between Werner von Braun who wanted fins (like V2 and Redstone he had created) and most of his younger engineering colleagues, who argued fins created needless drag and were no longer necessary. Look at today's rockets: Atlas V, Delta IV, Arianne, Soyuz, Proton -- even the weapons still aimed at "enemy countries," like Trident and Minuteman. NO FINS NO MORE.
Man, I think even though Pluto got demoted to a dwarf planet, I think everybody will still be happy to finally see a shot of the "planet" Pluto they had to imagine while in school.
it's amazing how fast the rocket ascends with 5 boosters.... they needed it to make the probe to escape at 16 km/s, way over 5km/s than escape velocity. this enables it to reach pluto with just one slingshot, shortening travel time to 9 years
Whether you call Pluto a planet, a dwarf planet or a Kuiper Belt Object, it does not really reduce the importance of this mission, or of Pluto, as it is to find out what Pluto and other similar huge balls of ice and rock are out there. There's enough manouvering propellant to direct New Horizons to another object out there, but Pluto is interesting, not only because it has Charon as very close companion (it's a double-(dwarf)-planet/KBO), but it can shed light on the whole outer solar system.
if it does it would allow the spacecraft to gain pictures of pluto within 150.000km altitude to 900.000km altitude away from the sun. its hard to explain but thats what someone told me on some board. But if i read the mission schedule no such thing seems to be possible or put in motion. If new horizons continues its current flight path it will flyby and will never make a single orbit around the dwarf planet. Unless i dont get the big picture.
it has reached my ears that a orbit of pluto might be possible because new horizons get slingshotted into plutos orbit but falls back to the sun when its at pluto at a velocity that makes it possible to orbit pluto at a very long and elliptical orbit. It might enter this orbit if mathematics were correct and the spacecraft would be slowed down enough compared to pluto - sun orbit and reenters pluto charon and remain in this orbit forever or for very long time.
cause im pretty fond of current spaceflight and astronomy. but taking a 10year trip that costed 50 - 100billion dollars for a few screenshots. I know the sensors do more then that. But you know what i mean since on many planets there are sattelites orbiting it for infinite times of sensoring like mars, and jupiter.
I hope vasimr or any other futerous spacecraft will one day let us orbit pluto at 20km altitude. Just a flyby, darn thats a waste. of 10 years. But im looking forward for the pics.
someone already answered my questions days ago. But a question remains.
So billions of dollars have been spent just for a single picture let alone get a large overview of plutos composition and other details that previous probes on other planets took years to unfold.
in pluto's case we just flyby and remain into a telescopic view for a few months when it passes out of sight again. The ship takes 10years to get their and only during a month we can photograph it.
@snookerkingexe how fast is the ship travelling? even as we speak?
do you know if NASA are working on new space crafts to do with traveling at the speed of light or FTL? i knoq it sounds crazy but iv heard that NASA are thinking about it even working on it
@ImSuperhuman at the moment its speed is about 83.700 km/h (52.000mph). New Horizons achieved 3890m/s with its FlyBy at Jupiter and is now traveling towards Pluto =)
And AFAIK ther should be no such thing as traveling with mass at the speed of light or just near to it ... for many physical reasons thats imposible (practicly) I could explain, but it would take to long xD
FTL is just science fiction unfortunally... for now anyway. We have broken so many barriers before that everyone thought to be impossible, so it could just as well happend to this too.
But they are always working towards making engines as fast as possible. The most promising that i know of now is a plasma-propelled engine called vasimr.
@jmnm0 the only thing that causes objects to slow down is friction, which is generated by matter. in space there is no matter to slow the vehicle down. ie no air friction
@jmnm0 based on newton's 1st law of motion: "Every body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion (constant velocity) unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force"
@jmnm0 based on newton's 1st law of motion: "Every body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion (constant velocity) unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force"
can someone explain something to me. The probe is slingshotted towards the orbit of pluto at 44000mph.
how can it get into orbit around such a small piece of rock when it passes the planet at such a high speed.
the probe wouldt even notice plutos gravity.
custom earth sattelites need 15-25000kmph to maintain a orbit. so how should a probe at twice the speed get gaucht by pluto which is 1/18 the size of earth?
The speed of a spacecraft in orbit is dependent on the mass of the planet, but its also dependent on the distance from the planet. Basically the faster the spacecraft travels, the closer it can orbit the planet. Of course if it travels too fast then it will no longer orbit the planet at all. If you have a circular orbit of a spacecraft traveling around pluto at 44,000 mph then it would be 23.73 miles from pluto's surface.
So it all depends on how close to the surface you want to be. The high velocity is really just used to arrive at the destination in a shorter amount of time. Theyll usually perform a thruster burn in the opposite direction of travel to slow the spacecraft down and put in the proper orbit they're looking for once they reach the planet.
new horizons isn't an orbit mission. the spacecraft will only do a flyby of the pluto/charon binary system and continue on to the kuiper belt to get data from some of the objects out there as well. :)
I'm no rocket scientist but I imagine Pluto's gravitational pull isn't as week as you think it is.
I guess as with high speeds as that, any considerable gravitational pull from entities like that of planets would cause greater influence in direction than at slower speeds maybe.
pluto has a small gravity and is smaller then the moon but as we all know anything that is big enough has gravity the actul gravity of the planet *cough* i mean dwarf planet is small in comprassion to objects in our solar system it amazes me that it even has satellites or Dual dwarfs
I think you have it backwards? What do you need to get off the earth? More speed, about 11,000 km/s. Slower speeds will influence an object's trajectory as it passes a large mass, because if you are going slow enough, you'll jest get pulled to the planet, but if you are going faster you would be fighting it more, gravity would have less time to pull you in.
Yeah now that I think about it, time is the real influence not just speed. If you are going fast enough you won't be going by a planet for very long, so it will have less time to pull you in. Say if you go past the earth in 2 seconds, your direction would have been changed by about ~20 meters (9.8m/s), but if you are going slower, you would have more time to be pulled in, so the slower you go, the more time you get pulled in, the more your direction will be influenced.
@Armigo91 44.000 mph as it leaves our Earth, but keep in mind that it will use Jupiter's and Saturn's gravity field to accelerate even higher, probably to above 100.000mph
Indeed - should get to Pluto in 2015 I believe. I would imagine it'd either have had to travel more slowly or had a powerful enough engine on board to slow down if it was going to go into Pluto orbit.
Pluto is exactly what it was before the international science organization "downgraded" it to "just" an icy object in the Kuiper Belt -- and just as interesting. It's all semantics anyway. Who knows? After New Horizons zips by and gets a look at it, maybe it they will upgrade it to a planet again... :]
Indeed thanks for this. For the questions asked above, there is a good section on the nasa website. It s actually slightly beyond Saturn orbit now and will cross Pluto in 2015. Then it will inestigate the Kuiper Belt and beyond
It reached Saturn last June. It is scheduled to reach Uranus on March 18, 2011; Neptune on August 24, 2014; and a flyby of Pluto in July 14, 2015. And then on to the keiper belt and in 2029, it will leave the solar system! I wonder if we'll still have contact with it by then.
Of course we will still have contact with it by then. Look at Voyager 1, for instance. We launched that in the 70's with 70's technology and we can still contact it. We launched this one in 2006, with 22st century technology. I would figure with newer technology we would have longer contact with it :)
yep - someone correct me if im wrong, but I remember the presenter on the news interviewing someone from nasa who said it past the moon within 5hr of launch and then Jupiter 1 yr later and then - only then after 10+ long years does it reach Pluto - which ironical is no longer a planet. Now that puts the distance of Pluto in perspective!
I think that the length of the Rockets is 20 meters and the push in the ignition of propellant are two thousand kilometers per hour will burn the back of the rocket as it rises and separates the solid propellants looking for the goal and enters MISSION
FUCK YEA!!! PLUTO RULES MUTHAFUKERS!!!
Ryio5 2 weeks ago
I remember when this was launched, when I was a junior in high school. Many moons since then. If I die before it reaches Pluto, I'll die angry.
Taraalcar 2 weeks ago
@Taraalcar calm down. it'll be there in 4 years (2016)
Ryio5 2 weeks ago
@Ryio5 2015 fortunately
Taraalcar 2 weeks ago
@Taraalcar oh, so they overestimated the ETA at launch... odd
Ryio5 2 weeks ago
@hangyutang: I meant fastest craft launched from Earth. The Voyager I is the fastest interstellar craft cause of the gravity boosts its gotten during its flight. I researched the Helios crafts after you mentioned it. 150000 mph is insane...no doubt the Suns gravity had a lot to do with it xD
2DJ1006742 2 months ago
This is the most EPIC spacecraft ever! Its the worlds fastest spacecraft and will photograph whats beyond Pluto.
2DJ1006742 3 months ago
@2DJ1006742 It is epic, but it's no the fastest spacecraft. That's Helios. It has the fastest launch speed, however. Enough speed, in fact, to escape the solar system (which it will do). But no matter what, it's still awesome.
hangyutang 2 months ago
The Atlas 5 is a nice rocket. :D
deathrooster14 3 months ago
Now that Atlas V added SRB's to their line up, its only a matter of time until "Ka-BOOOOM, we have experienced an anomaly, we are looking closely at the situation!"
ti994apc 3 months ago
Pluto was still classified as a planet during the filming of this video.
samsaz7 4 months ago
Awesome.This probe just passed uranus last march and will probably pass neptune on 2014.
AvOn1394 4 months ago
@AvOn1394 The Summer of 2015 can't come quick enough.
TymesRhymes 4 months ago
@AvOn1394 I thought I'd felt a breeze in my pants about that time.
singularwave 4 months ago
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 AWSOME
4everjoejonasluvable 5 months ago
looks like the SRB from the shuttle!
even by the sound!
looks great from here in Bic,Quebec
Felicitation,Congratulation
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veebic 6 months ago
Wow!
warecreepers 7 months ago
Wow, I think about how long this has been flying for and how much longer it will be. When I go to sleep at night, it's flying, when I go to school, it's flying, etc. This is one amazing project and I can't wait for the pictures that come back. I have so many questions when thinking about this though. Where does the fuel come from? How do people billions of miles away control something like this? Just amazing to think about the possibilities and what pluto looks like and what else may be beyond.
ralexh11 7 months ago
Man, Its going to be there in 2015.......Thats one long journey, though its going to be worth the wait
AccessDenied55 7 months ago
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sebpines 8 months ago
Can the New Horizons transmit all the way from Pluto?
greenbudsaion 9 months ago
This rocket has reached 50,000 km / h travels 18 km / s, the object is faster in the world except the light
Lastele1 9 months ago
very nice design.
A4moondoggy 10 months ago
Current Velocity(wrt to the Sun) and distance from the Sun of Spacecrafts:
Voyager 1 = 17.061 Km/s(3.6 AU/year) and 116.7 AU
Voyager 2 = 15.464 Km/s and 95 AU
Pioneer 10 = 2.6AU/year and 103AU (Only guesses as contact is lost)
Pioneer 11 = 11.41 Km/s(2.41 AU/year) and 83 AU
New Horizons = 15.86 Km/s(3.35AU/year) and 19.5AU
bharathbarrykumar 10 months ago
And since New Horizons mission plan doesn't include any gravitational slingshots around any planet and it takes a direct path to Pluto, it needed that much initial velocity (hence the record of fastest velocity imparted on a spacecraft by its launch vehicle). Also another thing, All spacecrafts do slow down a bit cause of the presence of interplanetary matter and also because of solar radiation pressure. And also there is the 'pioneer anamoly' to consider too.
bharathbarrykumar 10 months ago
Actually, its a misconception that New Horizons is the fastest man-made probe. This is wrong, Voyager 1 continues to be and will always be the fastest man made object moving trough Space. But what New Horizons was noted for was that it had the Fastest Velocity injected to it by the Launch Vehicle. Even Voyager 1 was not put into orbit with that much speed, but Voyager got that final speed because of the gravitational slingshots it got from both Jupiter and Saturn.
bharathbarrykumar 10 months ago
@bharathbarrykumar
The fastest ever man-made probes were Helios 1+2, launched in late 1969 / early 1970. Both hat a top speed of around 70,2 km/s relative to the sun.
Btw. New Horitzons made a slingshot at Jupiter, missing that opportunity would have delayed the arrival at Pluto for about 2 years.
blablubb12345 10 months ago
@blablubb12345 Helios 1,2 has the top speed record, yes. But I wasn't talking about the speed record. I was talking about the current velocity of all man made probes and which is the fastest now. Thats why I gave the list of current velocity for some spacecrafts instead of their top speeds.
About the Jupiter gravity assist, I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me :)
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@blablubb12345 @blablubb12345 Helios 1,2 has the top speed record, yes. But I wasn't talking about the speed record. I was talking about the current velocity of all man made probes and which is the fastest now. Thats why I gave the list of current velocity for some spacecrafts instead of their top speeds.
About the Jupiter gravity assist, I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me :)
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Futurecop2012H 10 months ago
yes its now passing uranus hahahahhaaahh!!!!
stickystick105 11 months ago
Reaches Uranus Next week
Pickuptruckdude 11 months ago
@Pickuptruckdude It's fast as hell, 35,000 Mph. Fastest space vehicle ever built until Plasma rockets are completed.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
he sounds like kyle gass
firsrupert 1 year ago
the fastest rocket
IzmirMr 1 year ago
In the last part. Those big things that fall down,where do they fall?
MrDailybright 1 year ago 2
@MrDailybright They fall down to the atlantic Ocean in an Area which was blocked for ships at this time ;)
snookerkingexe 1 year ago 3
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how come this rocket do not have 8 FINS on the end near engine motor
bestamerica 1 year ago
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rss0246 1 year ago
@bestamerica Cause big rockets that spend less than two minutes in the Earth's atmosphere on their way to space... ain't got fins no more! : ]
rss0246 1 year ago
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thank explain,,,
remember saturn V the biggest rocket in the world,,,
a saturn V had fins, redstone missile, pershing missile, patriot missile, jupiter c missile, mercury r missile,,,
all missiles / rockets must have fins on the rear for better flying straight to hit the enemy country
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica All the missiles you name are OLD! The small fins on a Saturn V were the result of a major debate between Werner von Braun who wanted fins (like V2 and Redstone he had created) and most of his younger engineering colleagues, who argued fins created needless drag and were no longer necessary. Look at today's rockets: Atlas V, Delta IV, Arianne, Soyuz, Proton -- even the weapons still aimed at "enemy countries," like Trident and Minuteman. NO FINS NO MORE.
rss0246 1 year ago
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okay thank explain,,,
dont use a word - YOU - on me,,,
let point the military missiles / rockets
bestamerica 1 year ago
Look at the end of the rocket at 2:50
Rosey3001 1 year ago
Man, I think even though Pluto got demoted to a dwarf planet, I think everybody will still be happy to finally see a shot of the "planet" Pluto they had to imagine while in school.
UnchainTheNight1 1 year ago
how far is it from pluto right now(in years/days and km's)?
GrVideos4 1 year ago
Science is fantastic.
kocsogarc 1 year ago
it's amazing how fast the rocket ascends with 5 boosters.... they needed it to make the probe to escape at 16 km/s, way over 5km/s than escape velocity. this enables it to reach pluto with just one slingshot, shortening travel time to 9 years
lordoftheriffs79 1 year ago
As of October it passed the half-way mark.
Not much longer, only 4 years to go.
Anarchemitis 1 year ago
I am much faster than that.
hagenar 1 year ago
Grrr no on board launch cameras?
mechan9 1 year ago
Whether you call Pluto a planet, a dwarf planet or a Kuiper Belt Object, it does not really reduce the importance of this mission, or of Pluto, as it is to find out what Pluto and other similar huge balls of ice and rock are out there. There's enough manouvering propellant to direct New Horizons to another object out there, but Pluto is interesting, not only because it has Charon as very close companion (it's a double-(dwarf)-planet/KBO), but it can shed light on the whole outer solar system.
Simpson654 1 year ago
what rocket is that
gfinn08 1 year ago
@gfinn08
Atlas V launch vehicle carrying New Horizons probe to Pluto.
Simpson654 1 year ago
what rocket is this Ares or Saturn?
solidmeijer 1 year ago
@solidmeijer
It's an Atlas V-551 rocket with an additional solid rocket kick-stage.
blablubb12345 1 year ago
if it does it would allow the spacecraft to gain pictures of pluto within 150.000km altitude to 900.000km altitude away from the sun. its hard to explain but thats what someone told me on some board. But if i read the mission schedule no such thing seems to be possible or put in motion. If new horizons continues its current flight path it will flyby and will never make a single orbit around the dwarf planet. Unless i dont get the big picture.
my question...?
Armigo91 1 year ago
it has reached my ears that a orbit of pluto might be possible because new horizons get slingshotted into plutos orbit but falls back to the sun when its at pluto at a velocity that makes it possible to orbit pluto at a very long and elliptical orbit. It might enter this orbit if mathematics were correct and the spacecraft would be slowed down enough compared to pluto - sun orbit and reenters pluto charon and remain in this orbit forever or for very long time.
Armigo91 1 year ago
cause im pretty fond of current spaceflight and astronomy. but taking a 10year trip that costed 50 - 100billion dollars for a few screenshots. I know the sensors do more then that. But you know what i mean since on many planets there are sattelites orbiting it for infinite times of sensoring like mars, and jupiter.
I hope vasimr or any other futerous spacecraft will one day let us orbit pluto at 20km altitude. Just a flyby, darn thats a waste. of 10 years. But im looking forward for the pics.
Armigo91 1 year ago
someone already answered my questions days ago. But a question remains.
So billions of dollars have been spent just for a single picture let alone get a large overview of plutos composition and other details that previous probes on other planets took years to unfold.
in pluto's case we just flyby and remain into a telescopic view for a few months when it passes out of sight again. The ship takes 10years to get their and only during a month we can photograph it.
I dont say its a waste.
Armigo91 1 year ago
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Armigo91 1 year ago
maybe a stupid question, but how can the spacecraft keep its speed in space even after 4 years?
jmnm0 1 year ago
@jmnm0 Because in Space there is nothing which slows the vehicle.
Just a few atoms every cubicmeter. And with some swing-by maneuvers the vehile gets some speed from other Planats ;)
Greetings!
snookerkingexe 1 year ago
@snookerkingexe how fast is the ship travelling? even as we speak?
do you know if NASA are working on new space crafts to do with traveling at the speed of light or FTL? i knoq it sounds crazy but iv heard that NASA are thinking about it even working on it
ImSuperhuman 1 year ago
@ImSuperhuman at the moment its speed is about 83.700 km/h (52.000mph). New Horizons achieved 3890m/s with its FlyBy at Jupiter and is now traveling towards Pluto =)
And AFAIK ther should be no such thing as traveling with mass at the speed of light or just near to it ... for many physical reasons thats imposible (practicly) I could explain, but it would take to long xD
Greetings!
snookerkingexe 1 year ago
@snookerkingexe yes ur right its impossible to travel at the speed of light (at the moment) but maybes in the distant future.
conzacee 1 year ago
@ImSuperhuman the spacecraft's speed is 83000 km\h
Xx9810xX 1 year ago
@ImSuperhuman
FTL is just science fiction unfortunally... for now anyway. We have broken so many barriers before that everyone thought to be impossible, so it could just as well happend to this too.
But they are always working towards making engines as fast as possible. The most promising that i know of now is a plasma-propelled engine called vasimr.
hobbiz 1 year ago
@jmnm0 the only thing that causes objects to slow down is friction, which is generated by matter. in space there is no matter to slow the vehicle down. ie no air friction
10willda 1 year ago
@jmnm0 based on newton's 1st law of motion: "Every body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion (constant velocity) unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force"
ajaykpaul 1 year ago
@jmnm0 based on newton's 1st law of motion: "Every body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion (constant velocity) unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force"
ajaykpaul 1 year ago
cant wait for april 2015!
joori012 1 year ago
Pluto is a long ass ways away....
nscwevideos59 1 year ago
back in 2007, when ploto was still a planet...
lewis0367 1 year ago
@lewis0367 actually its not supposed to get there until July 2015
thewolfspider54 1 year ago
Just a little under 5 years away from getting close to Pluto!
TymesRhymes 1 year ago
can someone explain something to me. The probe is slingshotted towards the orbit of pluto at 44000mph.
how can it get into orbit around such a small piece of rock when it passes the planet at such a high speed.
the probe wouldt even notice plutos gravity.
custom earth sattelites need 15-25000kmph to maintain a orbit. so how should a probe at twice the speed get gaucht by pluto which is 1/18 the size of earth?
Armigo91 2 years ago
As far as I know its not planned to orbit pluto ... New Horizions is meant to take just a flyby ;)
Merry Christmas!
snookerkingexe 2 years ago
@snookerkingexe it should reach pluto in 2015.
RockinRollBand09 2 years ago
@snookerkingexe pluto isnt the end of our solar system :)
10willda 1 year ago
@10willda I never said so, or did I? o.0 Of course youre right ;)
snookerkingexe 1 year ago
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SDsurfer09 2 years ago
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SDsurfer09 2 years ago
The speed of a spacecraft in orbit is dependent on the mass of the planet, but its also dependent on the distance from the planet. Basically the faster the spacecraft travels, the closer it can orbit the planet. Of course if it travels too fast then it will no longer orbit the planet at all. If you have a circular orbit of a spacecraft traveling around pluto at 44,000 mph then it would be 23.73 miles from pluto's surface.
SDsurfer09 2 years ago
So it all depends on how close to the surface you want to be. The high velocity is really just used to arrive at the destination in a shorter amount of time. Theyll usually perform a thruster burn in the opposite direction of travel to slow the spacecraft down and put in the proper orbit they're looking for once they reach the planet.
SDsurfer09 2 years ago
@SDsurfer09
new horizons isn't an orbit mission. the spacecraft will only do a flyby of the pluto/charon binary system and continue on to the kuiper belt to get data from some of the objects out there as well. :)
crazybastard82 2 years ago
pluto shouldnt even be a dwarf planet if its smaller then the smallest moon in the solar system. IDK what it else it could be
Andrewmcmelonse 2 years ago
I'm no rocket scientist but I imagine Pluto's gravitational pull isn't as week as you think it is.
I guess as with high speeds as that, any considerable gravitational pull from entities like that of planets would cause greater influence in direction than at slower speeds maybe.
I don't know I'm literally just guessing here.
k0sha 2 years ago
pluto's gravity is pretty weak.
pwnage0013 2 years ago
pluto has a small gravity and is smaller then the moon but as we all know anything that is big enough has gravity the actul gravity of the planet *cough* i mean dwarf planet is small in comprassion to objects in our solar system it amazes me that it even has satellites or Dual dwarfs
Australian123Gamer 2 years ago
@Australian123Gamer
dont forget its a mutual attraction with pluto and charon
chevezez 2 years ago
true
Australian123Gamer 2 years ago
I think you have it backwards? What do you need to get off the earth? More speed, about 11,000 km/s. Slower speeds will influence an object's trajectory as it passes a large mass, because if you are going slow enough, you'll jest get pulled to the planet, but if you are going faster you would be fighting it more, gravity would have less time to pull you in.
alterbr33d 2 years ago
Yeah now that I think about it, time is the real influence not just speed. If you are going fast enough you won't be going by a planet for very long, so it will have less time to pull you in. Say if you go past the earth in 2 seconds, your direction would have been changed by about ~20 meters (9.8m/s), but if you are going slower, you would have more time to be pulled in, so the slower you go, the more time you get pulled in, the more your direction will be influenced.
alterbr33d 2 years ago
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Apollo580 2 years ago
@Armigo91 44.000 mph as it leaves our Earth, but keep in mind that it will use Jupiter's and Saturn's gravity field to accelerate even higher, probably to above 100.000mph
ChronicMist 1 year ago
looks like a tampon
Blackhawknickc 2 years ago
pluto is not a planet
platinum243125 2 years ago
Well, it was a planet when this launch occured.
blablubb12345 2 years ago 23
8 hours and 33 minutes to pass by the moon, freaking impressive, humans are the best race :P
llanero89 2 years ago 27
species...
imarchello 2 years ago 3
@llanero89 Really? That's amazing! :D
Apollo580 2 years ago
@llanero89 that comment on the human race is argueble
dasdasist 1 year ago
@llanero89
How would you know?
hobbiz 1 year ago
@llanero89 and also the worst
thecameltoe 1 year ago
@llanero89 NO SHIT!
QJohnny12 11 months ago
@llanero89 That we know of. There could be life forms out there in the Universe that could go at the speed of light. We may never know.
SmexyAsianGirls 10 months ago
@llanero89 Among?
strangerindanger 7 months ago
@llanero89 that we know of.
jackolabito 5 months ago
NASA ventrilo lol
RichClone 2 years ago
Damn, that Atlas V doesn't mess around.
TimeLapseSteve 2 years ago
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this is definately the worst bag of shit ive ever seen
kirbyhater2 2 years ago
i don't know what technologies will be around by 2015, but the 14/05/09 will be the most important day in space history (if you ask me)
RoxcellAustralia 2 years ago
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carlosewm 2 years ago
Distance from Earth 13.7 AU
Distance from Jupiter 11.58 AU and it did a fly by on that planet for a sling shot that brought its speed up to 44,000 mph
Distance from Pluto 17.52 AU
Time is acurate at 15:00:00 UT for August 22
I wish they had some fricken thrusters on that lil bastard to orbit pluto ... it is just going to do a flyby..... going to be amazing though .....
DetroitRickMI 2 years ago 2
flyby? Why? Thats like a wasted rocket. Unless its gonna investigate the Oort Cloud.
blueblob4 2 years ago
It's going into the Keppler belt too and traveling outside of our solar system.
Waeweas 2 years ago 2
Indeed - should get to Pluto in 2015 I believe. I would imagine it'd either have had to travel more slowly or had a powerful enough engine on board to slow down if it was going to go into Pluto orbit.
Ntone606 2 years ago
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looks like a big cock
ancalites 2 years ago
dildo
SourTwinkie6 2 years ago
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carlosewm 2 years ago
Does anyone know where the probe is now?
Gothorochimaru 2 years ago
30 june the probe was between saturn och uranus.
Sneddarn 2 years ago
Heard that the launch was so fast, New Horizons had passed the orbital distance to the moon in about 90 minutes. Not sure if it's true or not.
BigKwell 2 years ago
Nine hours, BigKwell, nine hours. Still pretty fantastic. Passed the orbit of Mars in a record-setting 78 days... :]
rss0246 2 years ago
lol
rockrossy 2 years ago
will this spacecraft land on pluto or just do a fly-by
fireking9934 2 years ago
just a fly-by
cuz of high velocity and low fuel levels to slow down for an orbit
tiapon 2 years ago
fly by
rockfilmers 2 years ago
That spacesraft is as big as a bus
cornskid 2 years ago
21st*
deathshero777 2 years ago
Did you guys now that the launch was on: 19 January, 2006. And it will approach Pluto on 14 May 2015
GameHeadQuarters 2 years ago
I know !!!!!!!! 6 more years and we will fly by Pluto and then to the Kupier Belt !!!!!
111danish111 2 years ago
Now that Pluto is not a planet, this mission seems almost pointless :(
rockfilmers 2 years ago
Pluto is exactly what it was before the international science organization "downgraded" it to "just" an icy object in the Kuiper Belt -- and just as interesting. It's all semantics anyway. Who knows? After New Horizons zips by and gets a look at it, maybe it they will upgrade it to a planet again... :]
rss0246 2 years ago
Yeah, I guess you're right.
rockfilmers 2 years ago
Being an old fart I just hope to live long enough to see the great close ups... ;]
rss0246 2 years ago
Although, it still would be interesting to see the unknown up close.
deaftodd 2 years ago
well it's not pointless, the will also probe urinus and neptune.
Noobcs 2 years ago
I know it's not, bit it almost feels so. And by the way it really is Uranus, not Urinus, no matter how uncomfortable to say lol
rockfilmers 2 years ago
it is now 2734078609 km away from pluto :)
OrigoATT 2 years ago
Good to know xD
Thanks;);)
snookerkingexe 2 years ago
Tell me, does "New Horizons" have enough gas to go to pluto or they are just gliding to pluto?
skynet006 2 years ago
Some glide. Currently 52,000 miles per hour !!!
rss0246 2 years ago
cant wait il be 20 or 21 but the wait will be worth im gonna keep up with this
ramonesrock5656 2 years ago
will new horizons be a Deep space probe like voyagers 1+2 after it passes through the kuiper belt?
clayzee001 2 years ago
Indeed thanks for this. For the questions asked above, there is a good section on the nasa website. It s actually slightly beyond Saturn orbit now and will cross Pluto in 2015. Then it will inestigate the Kuiper Belt and beyond
collwyn 3 years ago
didnt think it hasd reached saturn yet did it pass close or just cross the orbit
clayzee001 2 years ago
It reached Saturn last June. It is scheduled to reach Uranus on March 18, 2011; Neptune on August 24, 2014; and a flyby of Pluto in July 14, 2015. And then on to the keiper belt and in 2029, it will leave the solar system! I wonder if we'll still have contact with it by then.
blueblob4 2 years ago
Of course we will still have contact with it by then. Look at Voyager 1, for instance. We launched that in the 70's with 70's technology and we can still contact it. We launched this one in 2006, with 22st century technology. I would figure with newer technology we would have longer contact with it :)
deathshero777 2 years ago
21st*
deathshero777 2 years ago
Excellent footage, thanks for the posting.
MightySaturn5 3 years ago
Its gonna be so cool to hear about photos of pluto in 6 years!!! I Cant WAit@!@!
Elijah919 3 years ago 2
How long will it take for the spacecraft to get to pluto?
bradleycpttd 3 years ago
I got information on Wikipedia that it will reach Pluto in 2015.
82315766 3 years ago
im sooo goona be a astronaut :)
Ultrayoshi227 3 years ago
Cant wait to see the first close up pictures of Pluto, its gonna be ace!!! :)
Markyboy28 3 years ago
that is so cool :}
abbykihano 3 years ago
who makes this rocket?
Igotnogod 3 years ago
Lockheed-Martin.
blablubb12345 3 years ago
thanx
Igotnogod 3 years ago
go space ship the great whites made it happen and bad people say we didnt go to the moon give up thumb let them know we know we went. go USA
tomanyasses 3 years ago
At 1:35 that, minus the SRBs, looks exactly like the Ares Rocket
GoNavy92 4 years ago
The nose cones on the SRBs for the Ares V rocket aren't curved toward the main launch vehicle but everything else looks like Ares V.
But yeah, I agree.
conkeresyn 4 years ago
That spacecraft is extremely fast, it now slowly reaches the orbit of Saturn!
The cassini took almost 7 years to come so far.
AKSproductions 4 years ago
yep - someone correct me if im wrong, but I remember the presenter on the news interviewing someone from nasa who said it past the moon within 5hr of launch and then Jupiter 1 yr later and then - only then after 10+ long years does it reach Pluto - which ironical is no longer a planet. Now that puts the distance of Pluto in perspective!
geoffart 4 years ago
Take a long look at that launch pad. Thats what the CEV pad will look like, with the 4 lightning rod towers.
Zoomer30 4 years ago
I think that the length of the Rockets is 20 meters and the push in the ignition of propellant are two thousand kilometers per hour will burn the back of the rocket as it rises and separates the solid propellants looking for the goal and enters MISSION
Connecticut2009 4 years ago
wow
beebee890 4 years ago
Does this one use the RD-180 engine? or am I thinking of the later Titan series?
FacultyFan 4 years ago
no, you are correct! they use the RD-180 engine ;) I think it's the reconstruction of the russian zenit-rocket engine ;)
snookerkingexe 4 years ago