New Horizons Company Profile

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Company Name	New Horizons
Website	pluto.jhuapl.edu
Snippet	New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.[4] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern,[5] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958 Arrokoth. It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System.
REX	Radio Science Experiment
SDC	Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter
SWAP	Solar Wind Around Pluto
Alice	Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer
Epoch	January 1, 2017 (JD 2457754.5)[3]
LORRI	Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager
Power	245 watts
Ralph	Ralph Telescope
PEPSSI	Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation
Rocket	Atlas V (551) AV-010[1] + Star 48B 3rd stage
Website	pluto.jhuapl.edu
Distance	3,500 km (2,200 mi)
Dry mass	401 kg (884 lb)
Operator	NASA
COSPAR ID	2006-001A
Contractor	International Launch Services[2]
Dimensions	2.2 × 2.1 × 2.7 m (7.2 × 6.9 × 8.9 ft)
SATCAT no.	28928
Inclination	2.23014°
Instruments	InstrumentsAliceUltraviolet Imaging SpectrometerLORRILong-Range Reconnaissance ImagerSWAPSolar Wind Around PlutoPEPSSIPluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science InvestigationREXRadio Science ExperimentRalphRalph TelescopeSDCVenetia Burney Student Dust Counter
Launch date	January 19, 2006, 19:00:00.221 (2006-01-19UTC19) UTC[1]
Launch mass	478 kg (1,054 lb)
Launch site	Cape Canaveral SLC-41
Eccentricity	1.41905
Manufacturer	APL / SwRI
Mission type	Flyby (132524 APL · Jupiter · Pluto · 486958 Arrokoth)
Payload mass	30.4 kg (67 lb)
Closest approach	January 1, 2019, 05:33:00 UTC
Mission duration	Primary mission: 9.5 years Elapsed: 16 years, 12 days

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