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New Horizons: NASA's Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission

Mission Elapsed Time Beginning 19 January 2006, 19:00:00 UTC
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Jupiter Closest Approach Elapsed Time Occurred 28 February 2007, 05:43:40 UTC
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Pluto Closest Encounter Operations Begin 12 April 2015, 00:00:00 UTC
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Pluto Closest Approach 14 July 2015, 11:59:00 UTC
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September 16, 2008
NASA Salutes New Horizons Team

NASA has honored the New Horizons team with a Group Achievement Award for creating and launching the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Project Manager Glen Fountain also earned a NASA Public Service Medal.
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September 12, 2008
'Brain Transplant' Successful as Checkout Continues

The first major order of business in New Horizons’ second annual checkout was accomplished as planned, as operators uploaded an upgraded version of the software that runs the spacecraft’s Command and Data Handling system.
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September 5, 2008
Team Checks Out New Horizons

Rustled out of hibernation, New Horizons is wide awake and undergoing its annual checkout. Follow the "ACO" progress on our Twitter site!
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July 29, 2008
The PI's Perspective: Journeying Beyond Saturn

With Saturn's orbit millions of miles behind it, New Horizons speeds closer to the Kuiper Belt and the historic encounter with Pluto and its moons. Principal Investigator Alan Stern offers a peek at the flurry of activity that awaits the mission and spacecraft teams this fall, and covers some new science results that offer a different look at the mission's primary planetary target.
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The New Horizons Kids Club is looking for older Pluto Pals! If you know a child who was born on January 19, 1996, please contact us at plutokids@jhuapl.edu. Visit the New Horizons Kids Club page for more information.

Track the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto and beyond!

Watch the New Horizons team embark on a historic journey that includes a close look at the solar system's largest planet.

Pluto is an ice dwarf - a "new" type of planet common to the deep outer solar system. View all P-K Bits >

The compact disc containing more than 430,000 names is now on the New Horizons spacecraft-on the way to Pluto.

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