The flyby increased New Horizons ' speed by 4 km/s (14,000 km/h; 9,000 mph), accelerating the probe to a velocity of 23 km/s (83,000 km/h; 51,000 mph) relative to the Sun and shortening its voyage to Pluto by three years.

2 days ago · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target – Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close. First spacecraft to explore Pluto and its moons up close.

Jul 14, 2020 · Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.

Jul 14, 2017 · This 220-mile-wide (350 kilometers) view of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft illustrates the incredible diversity of surface reflectivities and geological landforms on the dwarf planet.

[5] [6] However, scientists decided that a flyby of Titan during the Saturn encounter would be a more important scientific objective, making a subsequent flyby of Pluto impossible, because the close approach to Titan put it on a trajectory that slingshotted it out of …

New Horizons carries extra hydrazine fuel for a KBO flyby; its communications system can work from far beyond Pluto and its scientific instruments perform in light levels even lower than the dim sunlight at Pluto.

Nov 28, 2023 · NASA's New Horizons is the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close. Use the resources below to make the most out of this historic event - humankind's first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system.

Jul 14, 2020 · The NASA spacecraft's nine-day flyby of Pluto in 2015 hauled in a dataset that scientists are still mining.

Jul 24, 2015 · On July 14, New Horizons performed the first-ever flyby of the faraway dwarf planet, zooming within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of its frigid surface. The close encounter is giving...

Jan 19, 2006 · New Horizons is a mission designed to fly by Pluto and its moon Charon and transmit images and data back to Earth. It will then continue on into the Kuiper Belt where it will fly by a one or more Kuiper Belt Objects and return further data.