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Mission · Pluto & Kuiper-belt flyby

New Horizons

Agency
NASA
Launched
2006
Type
flyby
Status
active

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute · NASA media (public domain)

Overview

Scientific overview

New Horizons is a pluto & kuiper-belt flyby, operated by NASA, launched in 2006.

Mission

Agency
NASA
Launched
2006
Type
flyby
Status
active

Gallery

New Horizons Tracks an Asteroid

The two pots in this image are a composite of two images of asteroid 2002 JF56 taken on June 11 and June 12, 2006, with the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera component of the New Horizons Ralph imager.

2007

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute · NASA media (public domain)

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Observation

How this was captured

Source
NASA
Observation date
2007-04-02

Targets & destinations

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

  • NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics

    Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.