New Horizons
(NF1, New Frontiers 1)
(explorer spaceship sent to Pluto)
New Horizons (New Frontiers 1 or NF1) is a space probe launched
in 2006 to explore Pluto and (other) Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs).
It is NASA's first New Frontiers mission. It flew by
Pluto in July 2014 and the very distant trans-Neptune object, 486958 Arrokoth
(then known as Ultima Thule, and by its provisional designation
2014 MU69) on January 2019. The mission continues,
making additional observations of KBOs, some close observations and
some distant. It is traveling above the escape velocity of the
solar system, is currently around 50 AU from the Sun.
There is a hope that will be able to observe conditions at 100 AU
where it will be in 2038. Instruments:
(Pluto,spacecraft,NASA)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
https://newhorizons.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft.php
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2006-001A
https://arcnav.psi.edu/urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.new_horizons
https://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-fountain.pdf
https://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/out/kbbook/Chapters/Weaver_NewHorizons.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003EM%26P...92..477S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008SSRv..140....3S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008SSRv..140...75W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015Sci...350.1815S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018SSRv..214...77S/abstract
Referenced by pages:
Callisto
flyby
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Jupiter
Lucy
NASA
Pluto
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