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Having completed its flyby of Pluto, New Horizons then maneuvered for a flyby of Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth (then nicknamed Ultima Thule), which occurred on January 1, 2019, when it was 43.4 AU (6.49 billion km; 4.03 billion mi) from the Sun.
Jan 19, 2006 · In the fall of 2015, after its Pluto encounter, mission planners began to redirect New Horizons for a Jan. 1, 2019, flyby of 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt Object that is approximately 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth.
Jul 14, 2020 · Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.
Jul 14, 2015 · After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
Jul 14, 2020 · The NASA spacecraft's nine-day flyby of Pluto in 2015 hauled in a dataset that scientists are still mining. By Mark Zastrow | Published: July 14, 2020 | Last updated on May 18, 2023. New...
Jul 9, 2015 · Get a quick peek at the latest science in this daily update from NASA’s New Horizons mission, on track for a flight past Pluto on Ju...
Jul 14, 2015 · After nine years and three billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto and its five moons early Tuesday morning.
