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After launch, the New Horizons team scanned the spacecraft's trajectory to determine if any asteroids would, by chance, be close enough for observation. In May 2006 it was discovered that New Horizons would pass close to the tiny asteroid 132524 APL on June 13, 2006.
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] July 1, 2013: New Horizons captures its first image of Charon ...
[25] [26] This was four months after New Horizons' Pluto flyby. [27] In addition, two small yo-yo de-spin weights on wires were used to reduce the spin of the New Horizons probe prior to its release from the third-stage rocket. Once the spin rate was lowered, these masses and the wires were released, and so are also on an escape trajectory out ...
NASA's New Horizons probe has returned the first color images of Pluto. The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured ...
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 ]
NASA has released a map of Pluto's surface made from images recently taken by the New Horizons probe and it includes some quite mysterious features. Particularly notable is the lightened area ...
Before 486958 Arrokoth was discovered in 2014, Arawn was the best known target for a flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft after its Pluto flyby in 2015. [15] [16] Arawn was one of the first objects targeted for distant observations by New Horizons, which were taken on 2 November 2015. [17] More observations were made in April 2016. [7]
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 ...