List of New Horizons topics




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]
- 132524 APL, Distant observation target
 - 15810 Arawn (1994 JR1), Distant observation target
 - 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
 
See also
- Exploration of Pluto
 - List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System
 - List of trans-Neptunian objects
 
References
- ^ 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.
 - ^ a b "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.
 - ^ a b c d e f "New Horizons". pluto.jhuapl.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
 - ^ Shuster, Patrick (January 16, 2006). "Spacecraft will carry memory of Sagamore native". Trib Total Media, Inc. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
 
