Pluto

“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.”

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

“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.”