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New Horizons Spacecraft

New Horizons is the active radioisotope-powered outer-solar-system spacecraft designed, built, and operated by Johns Hopkins APL for NASA. It completed the first close flybys of Pluto and Arrokoth and continues remote Kuiper Belt and heliophysics observations beyond 60 astronomical units.

New Horizons Spacecraft
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Aliases
New Horizons probeNew Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt spacecraft
Family Name
New Horizons
Full Name
New Horizons Spacecraft
Roles
interplanetary_probeflybyresearch
Status
active
Type
spacecraft

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Description
New Horizons is the active radioisotope-powered outer-solar-system spacecraft designed, built, and operated by Johns Hopkins APL for NASA. It completed the first close flybys of Pluto and Arrokoth and continues remote Kuiper Belt and heliophysics observations beyond 60 astronomical units.
First Flight Year
2,006
Manufacturer
Operator
Propulsion Configurations
  • Entries
    • Nested value
    Name
    New Horizons hydrazine propulsion configuration
    Notes
    Models one exact integrated spacecraft subsystem. The source-backed 16-thruster architecture, eight mounting locations, 4.4-N/0.8-N split, and primary/redundant arrangement are retained in notes; individual Aerojet model suffixes are not inferred.
Spacecraft Specs
Reusability
expendable

Links

Official Url
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/new-horizons/

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Creation Time
July 14, 2026 at 21:59:57 UTC
Updated Time
August 13, 2026 at 19:39:30 UTC
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