Re: New Horizons Mission Two Pluto

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:24:37 -0600, Jorge R. Frank wrote
(in article <Xns974F42CBBFEFjrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> KURYER <KURYER.21svln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:KURYER.21svln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>>
>> Hello !!!
>> I think there else is an interesting thing connected with New Horizons
>> Mission. NASA is planning the probe to work much longer than Voyager.
>> However, It asserts that the core of its reactor to be much lighter
>> than the Voyager's.
>> Can anybody tell me what way NASA did that?
>
> New Horizons' instruments draw less power than Voyager's, so they can
> stretch a smaller power supply longer.
>
>

I'd have expected someone to have jumped on this already - it's not a
"reactor" , it's an RTG. Aside from that, what Jorge said.

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Herb

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