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*as of ‘16 SEPTEMBER 2023’*
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[‘new horizons’ is an ‘inter-planetary space probe’ that was launched as a part of NASA’s ‘new frontiers’ program]
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(engineered by the “johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory” (APL) + the “south-west research institute” (SwRI), with a team led by “S. Alan Stern”, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a ‘flyby study’ of the ‘pluto system’ in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other ‘kuiper belt objects’ (KBOs) in the decade to follow)
(it is the fifth of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity that will allow them to leave the “Solar System”)
(on “19 january 2006, New Horizons was launched from “Cape Canaveral Air Force Station” directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory with a speed of about 16.26 kilometers per second (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph))
(the record for fastest launch velocity belongs to the ‘New Horizons’ probe, which lifted off in 2006 on a mission to Pluto and the ‘Kuiper Belt’)
(this 1,054-lb. (478 kilograms), piano-size spacecraft sped away from the Earth at a blistering pace of 36,000 mph (almost 58,000 km/h))
(after a brief encounter with asteroid 132524 APL, New Horizons proceeded to Jupiter, making its closest approach on February 28, 2007, at a distance of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles))
(the Jupiter flyby provided a gravity assist that increased New Horizons‘ speed; the flyby also enabled a general test of New Horizons‘ scientific capabilities, returning data about the planet’s atmosphere, moons, and ‘magnetosphere’)
(most of the post-Jupiter voyage was spent in hibernation mode to preserve on-board systems, except for brief annual checkouts)
(on ‘6 december 2014’, New Horizons was brought back online for the Pluto encounter, and instrument check-out began)
(on ’15 January 2015′, the New Horizons spacecraft began its approach phase to ‘Pluto’)
(on ’14 July 2015′, at 11:49 UTC, it flew 12,500 km (7,800 mi) above the surface of ‘Pluto’, making it the first spacecraft to explore the ‘dwarf planet’)
(on ’25 October 2016′, at 21:48 UTC, the last of the recorded data from the Pluto flyby was received from ‘New Horizons’)
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(having completed its flyby of ‘pluto’, New Horizons has maneuvered for a flyby of Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69, expected to take place on January 1, 2019, when it will be 43.4 AU from the ‘sun’)
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