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46. Justice demands it.

Thu Apr 9, 2015, 02:03 PM

Apr 2015

New Horizons: Pluto lander would be 'spectacular' next mission

by Hannah Osborne
International Business Times, April 8, 2015 17:32 BST

A Pluto lander would be a "spectacular" next mission after New Horizons, as the planet could potentially be used as an observatory, an expert has said.

Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, spoke to IBTimes UK as the team gears up for the closest ever encounter with Pluto in July.

Over the coming weeks, Stern said the team will be making their final preparations: "April is a very busy time for us," he said. "We have the first observations from a number of instruments on board. We're doing a lot of navigation to home in on Pluto. We're planning a homing burn, meaning an engine trajectory correction in May.

"We're also conducting the last few mission simulations to train our team and prepare for the encounter. There are three of them in April and they're all very important."

New Horizons is just two months away from its flyby of Pluto, having launched in January 2006. At time of writing, it was 115 million kilometres (71 million miles) from the dwarf planet.

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/new-horizons-pluto-lander-would-be-spectacular-next-mission-1495456

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