Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is now awaiting the launch of the instrument that will give scientists their first, close views of Pluto. As part of a mission called New Horizons, the Ball-built ...
The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Ralph camera aboard the New Horizons mission will provide the closest images we have ever seen of Pluto when the spacecraft arrives at the dwarf planet on July ...
The spacecraft New Horizons sped past Pluto and its moons on July 14, 2015, gathering data from seven onboard instruments. Shortly thereafter, it began offloading that data in a stream of digital bits ...
Mike Brown, California Institute of Technology astronomer and self-proclaimed Pluto killer, uttered these words exactly nine years ago today after the International Astronomers Union (IAU) officially ...
MUNCIE – Ronald Kaitchuck, who has been monitoring the New Horizons space probe’s photographs of Pluto as they come in, says something like this will never happen again in our lifetime. “Humans have ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spotlight is bright enough to thaw even Pluto. Well, not quite, but the tiny, icy world is getting front-page, prime-time attention for its first visit by a spacecraft ...
Clyde Tombaugh was a Kansas farm boy, hired by the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., on the basis of some planetary sketches he produced with the aid of a homemade telescope — and because he’d ...
Experience the interactive Multimedia News Release here: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7530151-ball-aerospace-new-horizons-mission-pluto/ Ralph, the main ...