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New Horizons: Overview

New Horizons was one of the consortia proposals submitted for AO-OSS-01, NASA’s request for flyby mission proposals to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt.

New Horizons was selected by NASA on 29 Nov 2001.

The Senate and House funded New Horizons to enter full-scale development in their FY03 NASA bill. President Bush signed this funding bill on 20 Feb 2003.

New Horizons is now in Phase C/D and designated New Frontiers 1.

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New HorizonsOverview

High Gain Antenna

ALICE Instrument

RALPH Instrument

Star Trackers

LORRI Instrument

PEPSSIInstrument

SWAP Instrument

Spacecraft: A heritage-base, highly-redundant systems, and carrying a 300 m/s ΔV budget. Mass: ~415 kg.

Encounters: A two-month Jupiter encounter, a five-month Pluto-Charon encounter, then on to explore one or more KBOs.

Payload: 7 distinct instruments, plus EPO Student Dust Counter.

Science Performance: Exceeds the AO specs for all Group 1 objectives; meets or exceeds the all Group 2, and 3 of the 4 Group 3 objectives.

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New Horizons Organization Chart

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Science Team Overview

Programmatic: Programmatic: Principal Investigator:Principal Investigator: Alan Stern Project Scientist: Hal Weaver Deputy Project Scientist: Leslie Young

Other CoIs:Fran BagenalRick BinzelBonnie BurattiAndy ChengDale CruikshankRandy GladstoneWill GrundyDave HinsonMihaly HoranyiDon JenningsIvan LinscottJeff MooreDave McComasBill McKinnonRalph McNuttScott MurchieCarolyn PorcoHarold ReitsemaDennis ReuterDave SlaterJohn SpencerDarrel StrobelMike SummersLen Tyler

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Science Team Quick Guide:Mission Responsibilities

ROLE INDIVIDUAL

Principal Instigator Stern

Project Scientist Weaver

Deputy Project Scientist Young

EPO Lead Bagenal

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Science Team Quick Guide:Key Support

ROLE INDIVIDUAL

Payload Manager Bill Gibson

Payload Systems Engineer Mark Tapley

SOC Project Manager John Andrews

EPO Project Manager Kerri Beisser

HQ Program Scientist Denis Bogan

JPL Science Resource Bonnie Buratti

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Science Team Quick Guide:Payload Responsibilities

INSTRUMENT PI PROJECT SCIENTIST

PERSI-ALICE Stern Slater

PERSI-RALPH [LEISA]

Stern

[Jennings]

Reuter

LORRI Cheng Cheng/Weaver

REX Tyler Linscott

PEPSSI McNutt

SWAP McComas

SDC Horanyi Colin Mitchell

PROJECT MANAGER

John Scherrer

John Scherrer/

Bob Parizek

Kim Cooper

Chris DeBoy

Will Devereux

Scott Weidner

Gene Holland

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Science Team Quick Guide:Science Theme Team Membership

THEME TEAM

LEAD DEPUTY

Geology, Geophysics, Imaging (GGI)

Moore Spencer

Composition

(COMP)

Cruikshank Grundy

Atmospheres

(ATM)

Gladstone Summers

Particles and Plasmas (P&P)

Bagenal Horanyi

MEMBERS

Binzel, Buratti, Cheng, Murchie, Porco, Reitsema, Reuter, Weaver

Jennings, Reuter, Spencer

Hinson, Linscott, McNutt, Slater, Strobel, Summers, Tyler, Weaver, Young

Cheng, Horanyi, McComas, McNutt

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1989-2003: The Pluto Mission Labyrinth (DC)