List of New Horizons topics

New Horizons at Kennedy Space Center in 2005

Pluto by New Horizons

Charon by New Horizons

486958 Arrokoth by New Horizons

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 48B thirdstage . ^[1] New Horizons passed the Moon's orbit in just nine hours. ^{[2] [3]}

• 132524 APL, Distant observation target
• 15810 Arawn (1994 JR1), Distant observation target
• 2011 HM102, Neptune Trojan considered as an observation target ^[4]
• 2011 KW48, distant observation target
• 2014 MT69, former candidate for New Horizons flyby. ^[5]
• 2014 OS393, former potential flyby target
• 2014 PN70, former potential flyby target
• 486958 Arrokoth, flyby on New Year's Day 2019
• Alice (spacecraft instrument), one of seven major instruments on New Horizons ^[6]
• Alice Bowman, New Horizons staff
• AJ-60A, solid rocket booster of which five were used in the New Horizons launch. ^[3]
• Atlas V, New Horizons launch vehicle
• Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, launch site
• Centaur (rocket stage), New Horizons upper stage
• Charon (moon), Pluto's big moon
• Common Core Booster, part of New Horizons first stage launcher
• Clyde Tombaugh, discovered Pluto in 1930 from Lowell Observatory
• Kirk (crater)
• Kuiper belt, region from about 30-60 AU New Horizons explores
• Lisa Hardaway, New Horizons staff
• Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons ^[6]
• GPHS-RTG, electrical and thermal heat source of New Horizons
• Interplanetary dust cloud
• Interplanetary medium, studied during Hibernation
• Mongoose-V, CPU in New Horizons
• NASA Deep Space Network, for New Horizons Earth radio communications
• Nasreddin (crater)
• New Frontiers program, NASA parent program of New Horizons
• New Horizons 2 , design study for twin
• Organa (crater)
• Pluto, primary target of New Horizons
• Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
• Ralph, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons ^[6]
• REX, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons ^[6]
• Daniel Sarokon, NASA employee honored at New Horizons launch ^[7]
• Star 48B, New Horizons 3rd stage
• Alan Stern, New Horizons staff
• SWAP, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons ^[6]
• Tvashtar Paterae
• Vader (crater), crater observed by New Horizons
• Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons ^[6]
• Venetia Burney, New Horizons instrument honorific, Burney proposed Pluto's name in 1930

See also

• Exploration of Pluto
• List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System
• List of trans-Neptunian objects

References

1. Scharf, Caleb A. (February 25, 2013). "The Fastest Spacecraft Ever?". Scientific American. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
2. Neufeld, Michael (July 10, 2015). "First Mission to Pluto: The Difficult Birth of New Horizons". Smithsonian. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
3. "New Horizons: Mission Overview" (PDF). International Launch Services. January 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 9, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
4. Alex Parker (30 April 2013). "2011 HM102: A new companion for Neptune". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
5. Zangari, Amanda (March 28, 2015). "Postcards from Pluto". Tumblr.
6. "New Horizons". pluto.jhuapl.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
7. Shuster, Patrick (January 16, 2006). "Spacecraft will carry memory of Sagamore native". Trib Total Media, Inc. Retrieved July 8, 2015.