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La misión New Horizons (en español, Nuevos Horizontes) es una misión espacial no tripulada de la NASA destinada a explorar Plutón, sus satélites y asteroides del cinturón de Kuiper.. La sonda se lanzó desde Cabo Cañaveral el 19 de enero de 2006. New Horizons se aproximó a Júpiter entre febrero y marzo de 2007, para aprovechar la asistencia gravitatoria del planeta y adquirir así una ...
After a nine-year journey, New Horizons also passed its second major science target, reaching the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019, the most distant object ever explored up close. Also during its long trek, the spacecraft captured impressive pictures of Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede, and remained healthy as it flew toward the frontier of our solar system at 300,000 miles per year.
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA 's New Frontiers program. [5] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, [6] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study ...
La exploración récord de la New Horizons comenzó el 19 de enero de 2006, cuando despegó de la Tierra con la vista puesta en Plutón. Con una velocidad de 16 kilómetros por segundo, la New Horizons era entonces la sonda más rápida lanzada hasta la fecha. Solo la sonda solar Parker, que despegó en agosto de 2018, ha volado más rápido.
14 de jul. de 2015 · New Horizons’ almost 10-year, three-billion-mile journey to closest approach at Pluto took about one minute less than predicted when the craft was launched in January 2006. The spacecraft threaded the needle through a 36-by-57 mile (60 by 90 kilometers) window in space — the equivalent of a commercial airliner arriving no more off target than the width of a tennis ball.
14 de abr. de 2015 · The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled a longer time and farther away – more than nine years and three billion miles – than any space mission in history to reach its primary target. Its flyby of Pluto and its system of at least five moons on July 14 will complete the initial reconnaissance of the classical solar system.
This composite image of Arrokoth was compiled from data obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the object on Jan. 1, 2019. Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule (and later officially named Arrokoth).
