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  1. 2010 is just around the corner, and so is our half way point to Pluto on Feb 25th!
  2. Our next break from hibernation is just 2 wks away. We'll be awake for 10 days. Green beacon yesterday-- all's well, waaaaaaay out there.
  3. Did you know? The names of over 450,000 Earthings are riding with us to Pluto and then instelstellar space.
  4. Still closer to Earth than Pluto, but only for 10 more days!
  5. Sky & Telescope just signed a contract for a 2010 piece about New Horizons at the half way point in our mission & plans for Pluto encounter.
  6. New Horizons will be in solar conjunction for a few days late next week. Meanwhile, all telemetry indicates the spacecraft is healthy.
  7. Our ground team is preparing a new encounter simulation run w/fixes remedying minor bugs. It'll run for 9 days over the holiday break.
  8. Worthy reading from Alan Boyle: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34347663/ns/technology_and_science-space/
  9. After the 29th, we'll be closer to Pluto than to Earth!
  10. NH congratulates the SpaceShip2 team on the rollout of their spaceship! Did ya know a small bit of SpaceShip1 is tucked aboard New Horizons?
  11. Pluto is receding from the Sun but we're flying fast & will catch up in July 2015, just 6 summers hence; that's 2.2% of a Pluto yr from now.
  12. What if we flew another New Horizons to Centaurs & big Pluto-class KBOs? What if we even went there via Uranus? How cool would that be?
  13. There's a new blog with news and mission progress from NH PI Alan Stern: see http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective.php
  14. Look for a new PI's update next week on New Horizons mission progress. Subscribe to get all NH mission news here: http://tinyurl.com/56eflh
  15. is thankful for all the help and good wishes this year on our journey to the solar system's very frontier. Happy Thanksgiving all!
  16. A green beacon signal was received by radio yesterday here on the ground, so our spacecraft is operating nominally in hibernation!
  17. As you read this the 1st complete Pluto core encounter sequence, running 9 days & over 700 observations, is executing on our NH simulator!
  18. Tomorrow our mission leaders meet to architect plans for next summer's wake up, instrument cals, and cruise science.
  19. Tracking data indicates that it is still looking like we'll need a tiny course correction this coming summer when we do our annual checkout.
  20. After a successful, 10-day wake up period, NH is back to hibernation until January 4th. Congrats to the mission team-- well done!