List of New Horizons topics explained

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 16.260NaN0 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.
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Fastest Spacecraft Ever? . Scientific American . Caleb A. . Scharf . February 25, 2013 . July 12, 2017.
2. Web site: First Mission to Pluto: The Difficult Birth of New Horizons . Smithsonian . Michael . Neufeld . July 10, 2015 . April 21, 2018.
3. Web site: New Horizons: Mission Overview . International Launch Services . January 2006 . April 21, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160909024832/http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/The-Path-to-Pluto/FINAL-PLUTO_MO.pdf . September 9, 2016 . dead .
4. Web site: 2011 HM102: A new companion for Neptune . Alex Parker . The Planetary Society . 30 April 2013 . 4 August 2017.
5. Web site: Zangari, Amanda. Postcards from Pluto. Tumblr. March 28, 2015.
6. Web site: New Horizons. pluto.jhuapl.edu. en. 2018-10-21.
7. Web site: Spacecraft will carry memory of Sagamore native . Trib Total Media, Inc. . Shuster . Patrick . January 16, 2006 . July 8, 2015.