New Horizons
New Horizons is NASA's active radioisotope-powered Pluto, Kuiper Belt, and outer-heliosphere probe, designed, built, and operated by Johns Hopkins APL. It flew past Pluto in 2015 and Arrokoth in 2019 and passed 60 astronomical units from the Sun in 2024.
Identity
- Aliases
- New Horizons probeNew Horizons Pluto spacecraft
- Name
- New Horizons
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- New Horizons is NASA's active radioisotope-powered Pluto, Kuiper Belt, and outer-heliosphere probe, designed, built, and operated by Johns Hopkins APL. It flew past Pluto in 2015 and Arrokoth in 2019 and passed 60 astronomical units from the Sun in 2024.
- First Flight Date
- 2006-01-19
- Manufacturer
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- Vehicle Family
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/new-horizons/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 14, 2026 at 22:00:16 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 22, 2026 at 22:01:14 UTC
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