Satellites

Planetary Science

NEW HORIZONS

activePlanetary ScienceHeliocentric

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. It was launched in 2006, becoming the first spacecraft to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015. A secondary mission contained a flyby and study of one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, where it flew past 486958 Arrokoth in 2019. It was the first space probe to ever take high-resolution photographs of Pluto, in 2015.

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Launch

Launch date
January 19, 2006 at 07:00 PM UTC
Launch site
Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
Launched by
Atlas V 551
Operator
United Launch Alliance
Mission
New Horizons

Trajectory

Regime
Interplanetary — Heliocentric
Reference body
Heliocentric

Spacecraft

Operator
United States
Launch mass
478 kg

Identity

COSPAR (Int'l)
2006-001A
NORAD catalog №
28928
Object type
Payload
Owner / operator
United StatesUnited States
Status
active