New Horizons

“And so here we are, six months before launch, we have to actually have one of these things to integrate into the payload, and that company delivered five. We tested the five. Two were okay. Two met specs, and they were put on the mission.”

“He had five. Five gates left. And that's the way we flew.”

“This is the furthest radius occultation experiment that's ever been done, and the furthest bi-static radar, furthest radar experiment that's been done.”

“We were looking for a gravity assist at Jupiter, which would have boosted the, which did boost the arrival time by about four or five years.”

“In our case, that process got started. There's a plutonium processing facility that the U.S. Department of Energy maintains, and that there was in about halfway through the process, there was a leak that was discovered in the radioactive leak, and they shut do…”

“Because it's a four and a half hour light travel time. So essentially round trip is nine hours.”

“There was a French company that was making them, and they had gone bankrupt. There was a US company that was making them. They'd gone bankrupt.”

“We use a radioactive element called plutonium to generate the heat, and that generates about 250 watts for us of power.”

“We've sent 20,000 watts on an aperture that's about 70 meters in diameter, so the instantaneous power in the beam is huge. It's over a million watts per square meter. At Pluto, which is 3.7 billion miles out, in a system that captures this, those wave forms ar…”

“Discovered some really quite surprising things, like the day, the night side is a whole lot warmer than the day side”

“It turned out that six months ago, the picture of the sky was dark. There was nothing but black and a few stars, so the JPEG compression took a whole lot less time. It was done when the flash commands came in. This time, it wasn't.”

“Glenn, brokering through the U.S. State Department, Got the U.S. To make an offer to the Russians to buy their plutonium for this mission... For the missing piece of it. It wasn't the entire piece, but it was about half.”

“The last time that that happened for the Cassini mission, the license itself took like three years, maybe five Pushing four. And we had to have it in under six months.”