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 km/s from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas V version with 5 SRBs and Star 48B thirdstage. New Horizons passed the Moon's orbit in just nine hours.


 * 132524 APL, Distant observation target
 * 15810 Arawn (1994 JR1), Distant observation target
 * 2011 HM102, Neptune Trojan considered as an observation target
 * 2011 KW48, distant observation target
 * 2014 MT69, former candidate for New Horizons flyby.
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * REX, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
 * Daniel Sarokon, NASA employee honored at New Horizons launch
 * Star 48B, New Horizons 3rd stage
 * Alan Stern, New Horizons staff
 * SWAP, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
 * Tvashtar Paterae
 * Vader (crater), crater observed by New Horizons
 * Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
 * Venetia Burney, New Horizons instrument honorific, Burney proposed Pluto's name in 1930