Small Bodies Mission Support

New Horizons is a robotic spacecraft mission conducted by NASA. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix and Hydra. It may also flyby of one or more other Kuiper Belt Objects. The mission was prepared primarily by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). New Horizons was successfully launched on January 19, 2006. After a flyby of Jupiter on February 28, 2007 at 5:43:40 UTC, New Horizons is expected to arrive at Pluto in July 2015.

The New Horizons primary goal is to improve our understanding of the worlds at the edge of our solar system. The mission will image and map the surface appearance with visible-wavelength cameras, perform near infrared spectral studies to determine surface composition, and probe the atmospheres with ultraviolet spectrometers and radio waves to study escape of the astmosphere as well as the interaction of the atmosphere with the solar wind.

The New Horizons Mission web site is maintained by The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory.

The SBN is the lead PDS node to archive the New Horizons mission data. The latest version of the New Horizons Project Data Management Plan is available as a PDF file (119Mb).

Use PDS Subscription Service to be first to get the New Horizons data. Sign up there to receive an e-mail notification when new data arrives for each New Horizons instrument.
 

Instrument/Investigation	Target	Dataset
Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC/RALPH)	Post-Launch Checkout Calibration Jupiter flyby CALLISTO  EARTH  GANYMEDE  J1 IO  J2 EUROPA  JUPITER	Post-Launch Checkout raw data processed data Jupiter flyby raw data processed data
Linear Etalon Image Spectral Array (LEISA/RALPH)	Post-Launch Checkout Calibration Jupiter flyby CALLISTO  EARTH  GANYMEDE  J1 IO  J2 EUROPA  J RINGS  JUPITER	Post-Launch Checkout raw data processed data Jupiter flyby raw data processed data
ALICE (UV Spectrometer)	Post-Launch Checkout Calibration Jupiter flyby CALIBRATION CALLISTO  EARTH  GANYMEDE  J1 IO  J2 EUROPA  JUPITER	Post-Launch Checkout raw data processed data Jupiter flyby raw data processed data
Radio Science Experiment (REX)	Delivery of the data is postponed
Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP)	Post-Launch Checkout SOLAR WIND Jupiter flyby SOLAR WIND	Post-Launch Checkout raw data processed data Jupiter flyby raw data processed data
Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Sciences Investigation (PEPSSI)	Post-Launch Checkout SOLAR WIND Jupiter flyby SOLAR WIND	Post-Launch Checkout raw data processed data Jupiter flyby raw data processed data
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)	Post-Launch Checkout Calibration Jupiter flyby CALIBRATION CALLISTO  EARTH  GANYMEDE  J1 IO  J2 EUROPA  J6 HIMALIA  J7 ELARA  J RINGS  JUPITER	Post-Launch Checkout raw data processed data Jupiter flyby raw data processed data
Student Dust Counter (SDC)	Post-Launch Checkout DUST Jupiter flyby DUST	Post-Launch Checkout raw data processed data Jupiter flyby raw data processed data
SPICE	Spacecraft	SPICE Kernels

Mission Data

Other Target Observations

 

Target	Other Data Sets Targeting this Object
Pluto	DATA WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER JULY 2015

This page was last modified by Puru Shetty on Thursday, January 24, 2008