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New Horizons reached Uranus's orbit at 22:00 UTC. [27] [28] December 2, 2011: New Horizons draws closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft has ever been. Previously, Voyager 1 held the record for the closest approach. (~10.58 AU) [29] February 11, 2012: New Horizons reaches the distance of 10 AU from the Pluto system, at around 4:55 UTC. [30]
List of New Horizons topics is a list of topics related to the New Horizons spacecraft, an unmanned space probe launched 2006 to Pluto and beyond. On January 19, 2006 it was launched directly into a solar-escape trajectory at 16.26 kilometers per second (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas V version with 5 SRBs and Star ...
New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers mission category, larger and more expensive than the Discovery missions but smaller than the missions of the Flagship Program. The cost of the mission, including spacecraft and instrument development, launch vehicle, mission operations, data analysis, and education/public outreach, is ...
The New Frontiers program is a series of space exploration missions being conducted by NASA with the purpose of furthering the understanding of the Solar System. [2] The program selects medium-class missions which can provide high science returns.
New Horizons: Pluto: Success: New Horizons launched. On July 14, 2015, New Horizons flew within 7,750 miles (12,472 km) of Pluto. Japan: Akari: Earth: Success: Launch of the Akari infrared observatory France/ Europe: COROT: Earth: Success: COROT telescope to search for extrasolar planets 2007 US: Phoenix: Mars: Success: Phoenix launched and ...
Dec. 4—The Student Homelessness Initiative Partnership has announced Melissa Muntz as its new executive director this week. Muntz has served as the organization's interim leader since September.
The New York Timeseditorial page warned, “It is especially frightening to see the administration use the debates over the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and domestic spying to mount a new offensive against the courts.”3 July 31: “A SLIP OF THE PEN.” U.S. lawyers issued a state-ment expressing alarm at the way the president was overusing
New Horizons 2 was included in the tentative budget for the New Frontiers program missions. [5] In 2004, the United States Senate on Appropriations Committee provided additional funding for New Horizons 2, a new Kuiper belt mission. [6] As early as 2004, there was a conference on how to make the most use of New Horizons 2 's Uranus flyby. [7]