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
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New Horizons, Spacecraft New Horizons is the spacecraft that carried out this mission.
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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.
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Wikimedia FoundationNew Horizons, Goal sectionQuote, 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.
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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
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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.
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