New Horizons spacecraft
New Horizons is a radioisotope-powered NASA outer-solar-system spacecraft built and managed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. It performed the first close flybys of Pluto in 2015 and the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019 and continues heliophysics observations in the outer solar system.
Identity
- Aliases
- New Horizons probeNew Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt spacecraft
- Family Name
- New Horizons
- Full Name
- New Horizons spacecraft
- Reusability
- expendable
- Slug
- new-horizons-spacecraft
- Status
- active
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- New Horizons is a radioisotope-powered NASA outer-solar-system spacecraft built and managed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. It performed the first close flybys of Pluto in 2015 and the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019 and continues heliophysics observations in the outer solar system.
- First Flight Year
- 2,006
- Manufacturer Id
- vn7egd2rqcsc07cmkp421ewc1h8af313
- Operator Id
- vh76vnx3yy1vy23j7zc3wk80wx7nhx5f
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/new-horizons/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- 7/14/2026, 9:59:57 PM
- Updated Time
- 7/14/2026, 9:59:57 PM