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3 de may. de 2024 · New Horizons, U.S. space probe that flew by the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. It was the first space probe to visit Pluto. After its flyby of Pluto, New Horizons flew by another Kuiper belt object, Arrokoth, on January 1, 2019.
Hace 3 días · Learn about the design, instruments and systems of the New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006 to study Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Find out how the spacecraft is powered, stabilized and insulated for its long journey through the solar system.
Hace 5 días · New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched in January 2006 with the mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the outermost region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune. The spacecraft completed its flyby of Pluto in July 2015, providing detailed images and data of the dwarf planet's surface, atmosphere, and moons.
Hace 3 días · Cassini–Huygens ( / kəˈsiːniˈhɔɪɡənz / kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz ), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
Hace 1 día · The Voyager spacecraft benefited from multiple planetary flybys to increase its heliocentric velocities, whereas New Horizons received only a single such boost, from its Jupiter flyby in 2007. As of 2018, New Horizons is traveling at about 14 km/s (8.7 mi/s), 3 km/s (1.9 mi/s) slower than Voyager 1 and is still slowing down.
Hace 2 días · New Horizons is the first mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons, as well as other objects in the Kuiper Belt. Learn about the mission's goals, instruments, and discoveries in this web page.
17 de may. de 2024 · Learn how the New Horizons spacecraft was conceived, developed and launched to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Discover the challenges, changes and achievements of the mission that became the first to visit the dwarf planet in 2015.
