NASA's mission to conduct the first flyby of Pluto and its moons, carried out by the New Horizons spacecraft, aiming to understand the formation of the Pluto system, the Kuiper belt, and the transformation of the early Solar System. It continued to a flyby of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth in January 2019, the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft.
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Mission TypeRobotic outer planet flyby mission 1 OutcomeSuccessful; returned the first close-up images and data from Pluto on 14 July 2015, then continued to the most distant flyby target explored to date, the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth, on 1 January 2019. 1 Mission Type
Mission Type (category) Mission Type (category)Robotic / Uncrewed Mission 1 Connections
Associated With
New Horizons, Spacecraft New Horizons is the spacecraft that carried out this mission.
Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source New Horizons (Wikipedia)New Horizons, lead section
Pluto, Celestial Objects Pluto was the mission's primary flyby target, reached on 14 July 2015.
Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source New Horizons (Wikipedia)New Horizons, lead section
Operated By
Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source New Horizons (Wikipedia)New Horizons, lead section
Spacecraft Of
Source New Horizons (Wikipedia)
Targets
Source 486958 Arrokoth (Wikipedia)
Source Charon (moon) (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Hydra (moon)
Source Jupiter (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Nix (moon)
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1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia Foundation- Mission Type (category): Flyby Mission
- Mission Type (category): Robotic / Uncrewed Mission
- Mission Type: Robotic outer planet flyby mission
- Launch Date: 2006-01-19
- Outcome: Successful; returned the first close-up images and data from Pluto on 14 July 2015, then continued to the most distant flyby target explored to date, the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth, on 1 January 2019.
2. New Horizons (Wikipedia)
Lead paragraph
is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program
Lead paragraph, outcome
the first spacecraft to perform a flyby study and capture high-resolution photographs of Pluto and its moons
New Horizons, lead section
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
New Horizons, Goal section
The goal of the mission is to understand the formation of the Plutonian system, the Kuiper belt, and the transformation of the early Solar System.
Includes: New Horizons, Lead paragraph, part-of
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
Spacecraft Of: New Horizons, Lead paragraph, mission-of
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
In Group: NASA Outer Solar System and Small-Body Missions, Lead sentence
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
View the SourceJupiter (Wikipedia)
Targets: Jupiter, Article textQuote, Targets: Jupiter, Article text
The New Horizons probe flew by Jupiter in 2007 for a gravity assist en route to Pluto.
Pluto (Wikipedia)
Targets: Pluto, Article textQuote, Targets: Pluto, Article text
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moons, making a flyby on July 14, 2015, and taking detailed measurements and observations.
Charon (moon) (Wikipedia)
Targets: Charon, Article textQuote, Targets: Charon, Article text
The New Horizons spacecraft, the only probe to visit the Pluto system, approached Charon to within 27,000 km (17,000 mi) in 2015.
Wikipedia: Nix (moon)
Targets: Nix, Article textQuote, Targets: Nix, Article text
Nix was imaged along with Pluto and its other moons by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the Pluto system in July 2015.
Wikipedia: Hydra (moon)
Targets: Hydra, Article textQuote, Targets: Hydra, Article text
The New Horizons spacecraft imaged Pluto and its moons in July 2015 and returned multiple images of Hydra.
486958 Arrokoth (Wikipedia)
Targets: Arrokoth, Article textQuote, Targets: Arrokoth, Article text
It became the farthest object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons flew past it on 1 January 2019.
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