New Horizons Program

NASAs New Horizons mission is an active New Frontiers flyby mission that explored Pluto and Arrokoth and continues studying the distant Kuiper Belt and outer heliosphere. It launched on January 19, 2006 and is managed by NASA with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

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Aliases: New HorizonsNew Horizons mission
Domains: spaceflight
Name: New Horizons Program
Status: active
Types: explorationscienceoperations

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Description: NASAs New Horizons mission is an active New Frontiers flyby mission that explored Pluto and Arrokoth and continues studying the distant Kuiper Belt and outer heliosphere. It launched on January 19, 2006 and is managed by NASA with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Start Date: 2006-01-19

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Creation Time: August 13, 2026 at 12:38:10 UTC
Updated Time: August 13, 2026 at 12:38:10 UTC

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Official Urls: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/new-horizons/https://science.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-wakes-from-hibernation-in-good-health/