New Horizons hydrazine propulsion subsystem
The New Horizons spacecraft's blowdown hydrazine propulsion subsystem: 16 thrusters, propellant tank, and distribution plumbing for trajectory correction and spacecraft pointing.
Identity
- Aliases
- New Horizons propulsion systemNew Horizons hydrazine thruster subsystem
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- integrated-system
- Kind
- chemical-thruster
- Name
- New Horizons hydrazine propulsion subsystem
- Status
- unknown
Details
- Description
- The New Horizons spacecraft's blowdown hydrazine propulsion subsystem: 16 thrusters, propellant tank, and distribution plumbing for trajectory correction and spacecraft pointing.
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- Creation Time
- August 5, 2026 at 02:14:22 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 5, 2026 at 02:14:22 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-04
- Note
- NASA specifies 16 small hydrazine thrusters mounted in eight spacecraft locations: four 4.4-N course-correction thrusters and twelve 0.8-N pointing/spin thrusters, with eight primary and eight redundant units.
- Publisher
- NASA
- Title
- New Horizons: The First Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-04
- Note
- APL describes New Horizons as using a conventional blowdown hydrazine system with 16 monopropellant thrusters for mission delta-V and spacecraft control.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Title
- Spacecraft Packaging