Tag: New Horizons

  • New Horizons awake for Pluto encounter

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its moon Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Speeding through the outer solar system after a nine-year trek from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is awake and preparing for an encounter next summer with Pluto. The probe’s mission control center in Maryland received signals from New Horizons at…

  • Photos: Delta 4-Heavy launch gallery

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    The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifts off with NASA’s Orion ship on its inaugural space flight test at 7:05 a.m. EST Dec. 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Complex 37. Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images

  • Ground team ready to rouse Pluto probe for historic flyby

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: NASA On the final stretch of a speedy nine-year trek through the solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will be awakened from hibernation Dec. 6 for an encounter with Pluto, a mysterious world that has captured imaginations and will soon be revealed in reality. The…

  • Last-ditch search finds fresh targets for New Horizons

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Scientists using the powerful Hubble Space Telescopes have identified three tiny objects at the frontier of the solar system that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could visit after making an historic flyby of Pluto next…

  • Earth’s Deep Space explorers – Global fleet hitting milestones

    Earth’s Deep Space explorers – Global fleet hitting milestones

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    Deep Space spacecraft from the USA, Europe and India are all pressing through their mission milestones. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is less than a month away from her arrival at Mars, while NASA’s New Horizons has crossed Nepture’s orbit, en route to Pluto. ESA’s Rosetta mission also announced the shortlisting of landing sites on…

  • Hubble recruited to find New Horizons probe post-Pluto target

    Hubble recruited to find New Horizons probe post-Pluto target

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    Two NASA spacecraft are to join forces in finding a new deep space target ripe for investigation by the New Horizons spacecraft. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will attempt to find the target – in the Kuiper Belt – for New Horizons to travel to, following its primary mission of investigating Pluto in 2015. Hubble…