UM-Bot Posted November 10, 2002 #1 Share Posted November 10, 2002 Posted By Saruman on Sunday, November 10 2002 Subject: Pluto Spacecraft Development On Track NASA's first mission to Pluto has sailed past another critical milestone, as the New Horizons team successfully completed its second major system-level evaluation. New Horizons held its Preliminary Design Review Oct. 22-24 at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., which manages the mission for NASA. A panel of spacecraft and system engineering experts from APL, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Southwest Research Institute examined New Horizons' mission plans and spacecraft design - concluding each are reaching their anticipated level of maturity and that the project is ready to proceed. Click Here To Read The Complete Article...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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