Student-built instrument set to launch on Pluto mission

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Image: All three components of the SDC assembled and ready to be put into the New Horizons spacecraft. If you will notice the dust detector itself is protected from dust hitting it before it is supposed to.
Image: All three components of the SDC assembled and ready to be put into the New Horizons spacecraft. If you will notice, the dust detector itself is protected from dust hitting it before it is supposed to.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's long heritage with NASA planetary missions will continue Jan. 17 with the launch of a student space dust instrument on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.


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