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New Horizons ne pourra pas non plus effectuer d'observations directes de cette planète, mais elle pourrait croiser des astéroïdes faisant partie des troyens de celle-ci, car elle doit passer à proximité du point de Lagrange L 5 de cette planète. Depuis le lancement de la mission, les astronomes ont découvert deux nouvelles lunes de Pluton, qui en compte désormais cinq. Compte tenu des ...
- Applied Physics Laboratory et SwRI
- New Frontiers
- NASA
After a nine-year journey, New Horizons also passed its second major science target, reaching the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019, the most distant object ever explored up close. Also during its long trek, the spacecraft captured impressive pictures of Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede, and remained healthy as it flew toward the frontier of our solar system at 300,000 miles per year.
- United States of America (USA)
- New Horizons
- Pluto Flyby, Kuiper Belt Object Flyby
- 1,054 pounds (478 kilograms)
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA 's New Frontiers program. [5] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, [6] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study ...
4 oct. 2023 · La NASA vient d’offrir un nouveau sursis à la sonde New Horizons. Les objectifs de la mission devaient être considérablement réduits dès la fin de l’année 2024. De nombreux scientifiques se sont mobilisés pour demander que cette date soit repoussée. La NASA a finalement décidé de prolonger ses opérations jusqu’à sa sortie de la ceinture de Kuiper en 2028-2029.
29 sept. 2023 · NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended, low-activity mode of operations. While the science community is not currently aware of ...
NASA's New Horizons mission is designed to help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet ...
14 juil. 2015 · New Horizons’ almost 10-year, three-billion-mile journey to closest approach at Pluto took about one minute less than predicted when the craft was launched in January 2006. The spacecraft threaded the needle through a 36-by-57 mile (60 by 90 kilometers) window in space — the equivalent of a commercial airliner arriving no more off target ...
