List of New Horizons topics is a list of topics related to the New Horizons spacecraft, an unmanned space probe launched 2006 to Pluto and beyond.
On January 19, 2006 it was launched directly into a solar-escape trajectory at 16.26 kilometers per second (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas V version with 5 SRBs and Star 48B thirdstage .[1]New Horizons passed the Moon's orbit in just nine hours.[2][3]
2011 HM102, Neptune Trojan considered as an observation target[4]
2011 KW48, distant observation target
2014 MT69, former candidate for New Horizons flyby.[5]
2014 OS393, former potential flyby target
2014 PN70, former potential flyby target
486958 Arrokoth, flyby on New Year's Day 2019
Alice (spacecraft instrument), one of seven major instruments on New Horizons[6]
Alice Bowman, New Horizons staff
AJ-60A, solid rocket booster of which five were used in the New Horizons launch.[3]
Atlas V, New Horizons launch vehicle
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, launch site
Centaur (rocket stage), New Horizons upper stage
Charon (moon), Pluto's big moon
Common Core Booster, part of New Horizons first stage launcher
Clyde Tombaugh, discovered Pluto in 1930 from Lowell Observatory
Kirk (crater)
Kuiper belt, region from about 30-60 AU New Horizons explores
Lisa Hardaway, New Horizons staff
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons[6]
GPHS-RTG, electrical and thermal heat source of New Horizons
Interplanetary dust cloud
Interplanetary medium, studied during Hibernation
Mongoose-V, CPU in New Horizons
NASA Deep Space Network, for New Horizons Earth radio communications
Nasreddin (crater)
New Frontiers program, NASA parent program of New Horizons
New Horizons 2, design study for twin
Organa (crater)
Pluto, primary target of New Horizons
Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
Ralph, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons[6]
REX, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons[6]
Daniel Sarokon, NASA employee honored at New Horizons launch[7]
Star 48B, New Horizons 3rd stage
Alan Stern, New Horizons staff
SWAP, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons[6]
Tvashtar Paterae
Vader (crater), crater observed by New Horizons
Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons[6]
Venetia Burney, New Horizons instrument honorific, Burney proposed Pluto's name in 1930
^Scharf, Caleb A. (February 25, 2013). "The Fastest Spacecraft Ever?". Scientific American. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
^Neufeld, Michael (July 10, 2015). "First Mission to Pluto: The Difficult Birth of New Horizons". Smithsonian. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
^ ab"New Horizons: Mission Overview" (PDF). International Launch Services. January 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 9, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
^Alex Parker (30 April 2013). "2011 HM102: A new companion for Neptune". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
^Zangari, Amanda (March 28, 2015). "Postcards from Pluto". Tumblr.
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