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Jul 19, 2015 · New Horizons was launched roughly 9 and a half years ago, on January 19, 2006. So not decades ago.Pluto is far, far away.In fact, so far away, that both the Sun and the Earth, together with the rest of the inner Solar system planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) that are closer to us, appear in that small inner ellipse on this image of the New Horizons flyby trajectory:
New Horizons received a gravity assist from Jupiter, with its closest approach at 05:43:40 UTC on February 28, 2007, when it was 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Jupiter. The flyby increased New Horizons ' speed by 4 km/s (14,000 km/h; 9,000 mph), accelerating the probe to a velocity of 23 km/s (83,000 km/h; 51,000 mph) relative to the Sun and shortening its voyage to Pluto by ...
Jan 20, 2021 · New Horizons’ encounter would be a very fast trip through the bull’s eye, traveling at 52,000 miles per hour. Left: The trajectory, right to left, of New Horizons through the Pluto system during the close encounter phase. Right: New Horizons image of Charon, left, and Pluto from 3.7 million miles away, six days before closest approach.
Jul 19, 2015 · The story of New Horizons, the little spacecraft that could, and did, visit a small planet that is now considered too small to be a planet, started 15 years ago when NASA called it quits on Pluto.
Nov 8, 2024 · New Horizons, U.S. space probe that flew by the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. It was the first space probe to visit Pluto. After its flyby of Pluto, New Horizons flew by another Kuiper belt object, Arrokoth, on January 1, 2019.
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The flyby added 9,000 miles per hour, pushing New Horizons past 50,000 miles per hour and setting up a flight by Pluto in July 2015. New Horizons spacecraft provided new data on the Jupiter system, stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet’s atmosphere, rings, moons and magnetosphere.
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Jan 19, 2006 · After the Jupiter encounter, New Horizons sped toward the Kuiper Belt, performing a course correction on Sept. 25, 2007. The spacecraft was put in hibernation mode starting June 28, 2007, during which time the spacecraft’s onboard computer kept tabs on mission systems, transmitting special codes indicating that operations were either nominal or anomalous.
