The signal received on Wednesday morning contained only engineering data, and was designed to tell controllers whether the flyby sequence had been carried out properly. The first high resolution pictures from the flyby should be downlink later on Wednesday.
Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ,where mission control is based ,congratulation the mission team.
"What has Pluto given us? Whales, doughnuts, and a heart, "he said, referring to informal names for surface features in images taken during the spacecraft's approach.
Team members had expressed confidence the flyby would go well, but there was a very small possibility that New Horizons could be lost as it sped through the Pluto system.
Any stray icy debris would have been lethal if it had collided with the spacecraft at its 14km/s velocity.
James Christy, who discovered Pluto's moon Charon,joined relatives of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the dwarf planet itself in 1930,at mission control to witness receipt of the signal.
The signal received on Wednesday morning contained only engineering data, and was designed to tell controllers whether the flyby sequence had been carried out properly. The first high resolution pictures from the flyby should be downlink later on Wednesday.Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ,where mission control is based ,congratulation the mission team."What has Pluto given us? Whales, doughnuts, and a heart, "he said, referring to informal names for surface features in images taken during the spacecraft's approach.Team members had expressed confidence the flyby would go well, but there was a very small possibility that New Horizons could be lost as it sped through the Pluto system.Any stray icy debris would have been lethal if it had collided with the spacecraft at its 14km/s velocity.James Christy, who discovered Pluto's moon Charon,joined relatives of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the dwarf planet itself in 1930,at mission control to witness receipt of the signal.
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