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Where and when to watch the New Horizons Pluto flyby live online
“To go where no man has gone before” may be a line from the mission of the Enterprise of Star Trek fame, but come Tuesday morning a man-made machine at least will be going where no one has gone before, and you’ll be able to watch the New Horizons Pluto flyby live online.
Launched in January 2006, NASA’s New Horizon’s probe has coasted a cool 3 billion miles over the last nine years, and after taking a good look at Jupiter as it flew past in 2007, is finally arriving at its primary mission object Tuesday morning.
Pluto, named after the Greek god of the underworld, and previously classified as a planet until it was stripped of the title and reclassified as a dwarf planet the same year as New Horizon headed towards the stars, has long remained an enigma since it was first discovered in 1930; it has simply before now been too small, and too far away to get a good look at, and hence scientists have only been able to speculate about what the planet is like before now.
New Horizons Pluto flyby times
Traveling at a staggering 31,000 mile per hour, the New Horizons flyby of Pluto that will bring it within 7,800 miles of the dwarf planet occurs 7:49 a.m. ET (11:49 GMT) Tuesday morning local time.
NASA TV is holding a live broadcast of the event 7:30AM ET until 9:00AM ET accessible here.
However, given the distances actual images from New Horizons take time to get back to earth.
The rest of the New Horizons Pluto flyby schedule is as follows:
- 8:30PM – 9:10PM ET: NASA TV coverage of New Horizons’ “phone home” from mission control.
- 8:53PM ET: New Horizons’ scheduled data connection.
- 9:30PM – 10:00 PM ET: NASA TV coverage of a scheduled media briefing on the health and mission status of New Horizons.
To see high-resolution images of Pluto, NASA TV is holding a media briefing between 3:00PM and 4:00PM on Wednesday. Also included in that conference will be an image of Nix, one of Pluto’s moons.
Further images and data will be released in the days following.
Cross fingers that the live stream won’t crash as it will likely be viewed by millions.
Image credit: NASA/public domain
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