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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 · Spacecraft Overview. Image: NASA/JHU/SwRI. New Horizons is a Deep Space Exploration Mission operated by NASA, launched to study the Dwarf Planet Pluto and other icy objects in the Kuiper Belt. Launched in 2006, New Horizons set the record for the highest launch speed of a human-made object, entering a trajectory to escape the solar ...
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 · The New Horizons spacecraft is outfitted with a suite of seven instruments to gain a complete picture of Pluto, its atmosphere, its plasma environment, its dust environment and its moons. The mission aims to understand the formation of the Pluto System, the Kuiper Belt and the transformation taking place in the initial stages of the ...
17 de may. de 2024 · Embarking on a trip of five billion Kilometers, New Horizons settled in fairly quickly, beginning to send data back to Earth that showed everything was in order aboard the spacecraft with all systems in the expected condition after the turbulent ride into space.
