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On January 19, 2006, New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by an Atlas V rocket directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory with a speed of about 16.26 km/s (10.10 mi/s; 58,500 km/h; 36,400 mph). It was the fastest (average speed with respect to Earth) human-made object ever launched from Earth.
New Horizons third stage, a Star 48B solid fuel rocket, is on a similar escape trajectory out of the Solar System to New Horizons, even arriving at Jupiter six hours before New Horizons. On October 15, 2015, it passed Pluto's orbit at a distance of 213 million kilometers (over 1 AU) distant from Pluto.
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' third stage, a STAR-48 booster, is on a similar escape trajectory out of the Solar System as New Horizons, but will pass millions of kilometers from Pluto. [23] It crossed Pluto's orbit in October 2015. [23] The third stage rocket boosters for Pioneer 10, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 are also on escape trajectories out of the Solar ...
A Star 48B was used on the third stage of the New Horizons spacecraft launch. [12] New Horizons was launched by ULA's Atlas V 551 in January 2006, and the Star 48B booster was launched along with the New Horizons ' s spacecraft on an escape trajectory out of the Solar System. [13]
New Horizons · 486958 Arrokoth · Earth · 132524 APL · Jupiter · Pluto VBSDC can record micron size dust impacts on NH's route away from the Sun and past Pluto The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter ( VBSDC ) is a scientific instrument aboard the uncrewed New Horizons space probe that is designed to detect dust impacts in outer space. [ 1 ]
Trajectory of New Horizons and other nearby Kuiper belt objects. Between 4–15 January 2015, [4] the New Horizons spacecraft actively observed this object – then temporarily designated VNH0004 – at a distance of about 0.5 AU (75 million km; 46 million mi). [5]