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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).
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Horizons instrument.
Instrument/Investigation | Target | Dataset |
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Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC/RALPH) | Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby
| Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby |
Linear Etalon Image Spectral Array (LEISA/RALPH) | Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby
| Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby |
ALICE (UV Spectrometer) | Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby
| Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby |
Radio Science Experiment (REX) |
Delivery of the data is postponed | |
Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) | Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby
| Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby |
Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Sciences Investigation
(PEPSSI) | Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby
| Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby |
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) | Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby
| Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby |
Student Dust Counter (SDC) | Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby
| Post-Launch Checkout
Jupiter flyby |
SPICE | Spacecraft | SPICE Kernels |
Instrument |
Target |
Post-Launch Checkout |
Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera |
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Linear Etalon Image Spectral Array |
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ALICE (UV Spectrometer) |
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Solar Wind Around Pluto |
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Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Sciences Investigation
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Long Range Reconnaissance Imager |
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Student Dust Counter |
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Instrument |
Target |
Jupiter flyby |
Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera |
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Linear Etalon Image Spectral Array |
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ALICE (UV Spectrometer) |
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Solar Wind Around Pluto |
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Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Sciences Investigation
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Long Range Reconnaissance Imager |
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Student Dust Counter |
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SPICE | Spacecraft | SPICE Kernels |
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