New Horizons is the first of NASA's New Frontiers mission probes, which are medium-class missions designed to explore different destinations in the solar system. (Other selected missions include theJunoJupiter mission and theOSIRIS-ReXmission to return a sample from asteroidBennu.) Related:NASA cel...
New Horizons is NASA's first mission of the New Frontiers Program. The mission will be the first reconnaissance mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. The spacecraft was launched on January 19, 2006, exactly 5 years after the publication of the announcement of opportunity soliciting proposals ...
The mission New Horizons showed that the small satellites of Pluto P2 Nikta, P3 Hydra, P4 Kerberos, and P5 Styx did not reach the state of synchronous rotation in the tidal evolution of rotations and have significant inclination angles of the rotation axes relative to the normal to the orbit...
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first probe ever to explore the dwarf planet Pluto. See how New Horizon's 2015 Pluto flyby works here.
As NASA's New Horizons mission continues exploring the unknown, the mission team has selected a highly appropriate nickname for its next flyby target in the outer reaches of the solar system. With substantial public input, the team has chosen "Ultima Thule" (pronounced ultima thoo-lee") for...
“The New Horizons mission to Pluto exceeded our expectations and even today the data from the spacecraft continue to surprise,” said NASA’s Director of Planetary Science Jim Green at NASA HQ in Washington, D.C. “We’re excited to continue onward into the dark depths of the outer sol...
The Student Dust Counter (SDC) experiment of the New Horizons Mission is an impact dust detector to map the spatial and size distribution of dust along the trajectory of the spacecraft across the solar system. The sensors are thin, permanently polarized polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) plastic films...
The Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 is the targeted flyby candidate for the New Horizons spacecraft's extended mission, with a close flyby on 1 January 2019. MU69 is thought to be a cold classical Kuiper belt object; it would be the first of these objects to be resolved and studied by ...
NEW HORIZONS MISSION DESIGN FOR THE PLUTO-KUIPER BELT MISSION Y. Guo and R. W. Farquhar Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, Maryland Abstract As the first scientific reconnaissance mission to explore Pluto, the Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission will investigate the geology, surface co...