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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target – Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close.
- NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
Sep 29, 2023. Article. NASA has announced an updated plan to...
- NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
NASA. Jul 14, 2015. RELEASE15-149. Pluto nearly fills the...
- NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto Encounter
NASA. Jan 15, 2015. RELEASE 15-011. NASA’s New Horizons...
- NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA 's New Frontiers program. [5] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, [6] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study ...
Sep 29, 2023 · Sep 29, 2023. Article. NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended, low-activity mode of operations. While the science community is ...
NASA's New Horizons mission is designed to help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet ...
Jul 14, 2015 · NASA. Jul 14, 2015. RELEASE15-149. Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft ...
Dec 30, 2018 · Updated 10:55 a.m., January 1. It’s official: New Horizons just flew past Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever to get a robotic visitor. After a tense night of waiting, the New Horizons ...
Jan 15, 2015 · NASA. Jan 15, 2015. RELEASE 15-011. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first close-up flyby of the dwarf planet, 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth.
