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The New Horizons spacecraft

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-son40-00103

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 16 cm

In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers begin installing the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) onto the New Horizons spacecraft for a fit check. The RTG is the baseline power supply for New Horizons, scheduled to launch in January 2006 on a journey to Pluto and its moon, Charon. It is expected to reach Pluto in July 2015.

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2005 - CAPE CANAVERAL - HUMAN - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - NEW HORIZONS - PERSON - PREPARATION - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -