NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
Sep 29, 2023 · NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique …
New Horizons ‘Speeds Up’ on Final Approach to Pluto - NASA
Jun 30, 2015 · In the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, flight controllers (from left) Chris Regan and Becca Sepan …
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone
Apr 15, 2021 · In the weeks following its launch in early 2006, when NASA’s New Horizons was still close to home, it took just minutes to transmit a command to the spacecraft, and hear back that the …
New Horizons - NASA
Jul 13, 2014 · The New Horizons mission is helping us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet Pluto and by venturing deeper into the …
New Findings from NASA’s New Horizons Shape Understanding of …
Dec 17, 2015 · Five months after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto to take the first images and measurements of this icy world and its system of satellites, knowledge about this distant …
New Horizons: Imagining a Landing on Pluto - NASA
Jul 14, 2016 · Made from more than 100 New Horizons images taken over six weeks of approach and close flyby, the video offers a “trip” to Pluto. It starts with a distant spacecraft’s view of Pluto and its …
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
Feb 20, 2024 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky …
NASA Met Unprecedented Challenges Sending Spacecraft to Pluto
Jul 2, 2015 · NASA’s New Horizons mission presented challenges like no other, but its goal also was unprecedented. The spacecraft will soon begin a study of the farthest reaches of the solar system. It …
New Horizons Spacecraft Returns Its Sharpest Views of Ultima Thule
Feb 22, 2019 · The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pictures of …
New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
Feb 8, 2018 · New Horizons was even farther from home than NASA’s Voyager 1 when it captured the famous “ Pale Blue Dot ” image of Earth. That picture was part of a composite of 60 images looking …