[Wednesday, October 3, 2007] The $190 million contract award is a competed firm-fixed-price task order. It includes the launch service for an Atlas V model 551 rocket, payload processing, launch vehicle integration, and the necessary tracking, data and telemetry support.

[Thursday, October 4, 2007] What NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft found when it flew by Jupiter on Feb. 28, 2007, stunned scientists who now are releasing more information in nine journal articles in Science.

[Tuesday, October 9, 2007] During the first traversal nearly straight down any planet's magnetotail, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard New Horizons gathered remarkable new data on the magnetospheric bubble that surrounds Jupiter.

[Tuesday, October 9, 2007] The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft.

[Tuesday, October 9, 2007] Dramatic changes in the atmospheric density of Jupiter's moon Io and its interaction with Jupiter's magnetosphere during solar eclipse were observed through Io's aurora on four occasions this past spring as the New Horizons spacecraft rounded Jupiter for

[Wednesday, October 24, 2007] The large size of the Jovian magnetosphere means that the time it takes for material that reconnects in the magnetotail and moves back up to Earth is only about 10 hours, less than half a day. However, the process at Jupiter takes 750 to 1,000 hours.