How NASA pulled off the Pluto flyby
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2016
- Nearly a year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, marking the first time a vehicle had visited the dwarf planet. Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, sat down with The Verge to discuss how the engineering team pulled off the mission and what we've learned from the flyby so far.
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This is the best Verge video due to them not mentioning Apple...
Yes, yes, yes, omg true
I like the smile he has at the very end of the video. You can really see his work and time was worth it. :)
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I somehow lost my account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.
@Finnegan Joshua instablaster ;)
That ending was great :D Put a big smile on my face :D
saying, "This is a great video!" is an understatement. Awesome interview!
Very well worth watching. More vids like this!
thank you! glad you liked it.
Can't go wrong with quality Verge science journalism. Thank you!
Can always rely on Loren to make an interesting space video! Amazingly done.
Can't wait for a future missions
It's "future missions", without the "a".
This is the best verge video I've seen in a Long time. Great work.
i fixed alan stern's laptop as a dell tech years and years ago :D
Well done! Thanks for showing us the highlights and important points to see what an accomplishment this is.
Fascinating ! ... need more vids like this !
This is fantastic. Great video.
Awesome! More videos like this!
Nice video quite informative
Fabulous Interview, Setting up the tone by what it is, how they did it and finally, what to look forward.
One special mention to the Video editing team, it is at par the best video editing ever seen for The Verge so far I remember. The image of Pluto's surface in backdrop of Alan 6:36 says volume of achievement for his team. Keep it up. There could have been the best in past but this one is the best for me.
thank you! i'm glad you enjoyed our video so much.
Awesome, video, please do more of these
So beautiful, I cried.
This is so cool!
Awesome Video
Wow! Loved it!
You have an amazing editor. Kudos to him and to the special effects team.
*cough* her *cough*
Thank you. I worked at JPL 1974-1986
nice video
As I told my students, they basically shot a red bird, blinfolded, with the slingshot and the pigs moving at high speed, with some planetfields in the middle.
And waited 9 years to see the 3 stars
Cool video!!😎😋
Huge honor to all who were involved in this brilliant scientific triumph!
This is indeed awesome :D
very beautiful reporter! amazin video!
Sick!
This video is awesome
thank you!
All of this is so exciting. It's impossible to imagine how far away those planets are - and still, some incredibly smart people figure out how to send data from Pluto to earth! Mind. Blown. :)
So rad. Awesome dude, awesome interview. Verge, with more science-centric videos like this, now is the time to rise up and supplant Motherboard, since that channel has been overrun by grade-schoolers.
this is cool
"This is where star trek begins" i hope i can still be alive to see the breakthrough.
3,000th video from Verge.. I remember when they only had 50 videos
Loren Grush
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New Horizons, leaving the Solar System: ugh finally I’m OUT of that hell hole, where should I go next?
In love with you Loren 💓💓💓
Who are the 18 people that hated this video? I mean seriously why would you hate this give me a reason why?
What is this font called at 1:20? (The font which describes the Planet)
The labels on the Kuiper belt objects? I used DIN Next Rounded LT Pro -- nearly all the fonts in the video are in the DIN family.
Thx!
Do you do the graphics for The Verge?
I'm one of many video directors here - but yes, i did the graphics on this (and several other) video(s)
Cool! Nice work.
MAKE PLUTO A PLANET!!!!
If we made Pluto a planet we would have to classify dozens of other dwarf planets as planets. But don't be sad yet, because we have data to believe there may be a ninth planet beyond the dwarf planets.
I noticed how Stern called it a planet in this video...
James Harrison well yeah it get's a bit tedious calling it a dwarf planet all the time
Make Pluto Great Again!
What does it mean when they talked about a window in space?
Probably an area that doesn't have any gravitational pull. Ex. Some planet is 9 minutes away from some point and on that point it would pull/move from its travel the object.
By window, they mean, the area in space where they needed to be at the exact right time. If they had arrived too early or too late or a hundred miles off, Pluto wouldn't have been in the right place, and New Horizon's cameras would have been taking pictures of empty space!
To get to Pluto you have to burn fuel the size of moon. That's why they hop from planets to reach Pluto. To acquire escape velocity. Without network just impossible to travel.
Pluto is the best planet! 💫
Wow Loren is beautiful as ever 😀
What's Loren's educational background? She should get a masters in science, might make her journalism exceptional.
I bet the guy who got pluto lowered in class after the discoverer died is now so embarrassed because its not just a insignificant rock
i was like it ended... :(
3:38 BILL CIPHER!?!
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Spingebill???
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HELLO MY FREIND IN ANY PLANETE LIFE THE DEAD IS IT MARS OR PLUTO?
Unfortunately I found the presenter's voice a barrier to viewing more than 45 seconds!
Should have been Star Wars :D, Time for Space X to complete this mission!
They used the LHC to resurrect Kubrick? =)
Yet another pathetic troll...
It's kinda funny though ...
there was a software glitch..... as a scientist i know that pain
Why didn't they use a more powerful communications system to send back the data?
Rhapsodise the speed of light is the limit for anything
Shame it takes near-on ten years to get there. Not to mention all of the preparatory stuff before the probe takes off.
If they decide to fund another New Horizons, it'll be... what, 15 years before it reaches the Kuiper belt?
So, why aren't we going to the moon anymore? Since we're spending so much money on missions that take years to get to the destination, why don't we do 'short' missions to the moon?
Because sending people to the moon is a lot more expensive than robotic missions to the planets. The New Horizons mission only cost about 700 million dollars over 15 years, but based on NASA's Apollo budget, a crewed moon program would be more like a few hundred billion.
Aha, thank you for clearing that up! So, if I understand you correctly, we could be sending humans to the moon as soon as SpaceX is capable of doing so (since the costs are significantly lower)? I know SpaceX's main purpose is colonizing Mars, but would that be a possibility? And, do we have robots driving around on the Moon, like we have on Mars?
As DrToonhattan said, robotics mission in general are significantly less costly than human exploration since the constraints are far more critical when humans are involved. SpaceX is doing a fantastic job working on the falcon 9 first stage reusability, but its Dragon capsule still can't carry manned missions.
Regarding rover missions to the moon, there having been rover sent to the moon since the cold war, both from the US and the Soviet, but i don't think there is any in service nowadays. There are private missions coming up soon however, you can check for example The Google Lunar X-Prize challenge going on, a bunch of teams throughout the world are competing for sending rovers to the moon by 2017, it's pretty cool.
For manned mission, if i'm not mistaken, the USA policy (and so NASA) is set on going to Mars and the Moon wasn't really a priority or even in its plans anymore, but this may change since Both ESA (European Space Agency) and Russia are considering a number of missions to the Moon. ESA is even bolder and hope to set up a "Moon village", a permanent human outpost on the Moon, you can google it if you're interested, so maybe humans will end up going back to the Moon after all! : )
Thanks for the story TheBluesytone! That "Moon Village" would be quite neat, but that would probably take quite some time to set up and design right?
Also, do you maybe know why the ISS didn't go with a centrifugal design like the Hermes from The Matrian? Is it really that the gravity difference from toe to head is worse than Zero-G?
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Girl, how dumb do you think we are? It’s not heart shaped, everyone knows it’s the silhouette of Disney’s dog Pluto. Subtlety at its finest. 😂
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So have all the fools that said Pluto was not a planet suitably discredited and dropped from their ivory towers?
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Cool CGI!
I DON'T LIKE
Don’t blame these scientists, they submit a complete program on how to get the “satellite” to Pluto, then when it’s time to do it, NASA just use the simulation program. Self-fulfilling prophesy.
Good Photoshop skills NASA.
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