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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.

New Horizons Program
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI — Pluto and Charon: Strikingly Different Worlds (New Horizons) · NASA's current Images and Media Usage Guidelines state that NASA content is generally not subject to U.S. copyright and may be used factually for editorial or informational purposes, subject to the stated restrictions, credit, and no implied endorsement. The official New Horizons resource credits NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI; those credits are preserved here. This unmodified mission image contains no identifiable person or NASA logo and is used only for factual identification of the New Horizons Program, without endorsement or affiliation. · Source

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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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Parent Program
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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 23, 2026 at 01:27:23 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/