Pluto system
New Horizons
Pluto/Kuiper Belt probe.
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
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The mission
Pluto/Kuiper Belt probe. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2006-001; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 19 January 2006, 19:00:00 UTC
- Launch location
- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas V 551
- Orbit
- Earth-escape trajectory
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket launched the New Horizons mission on Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 7:00 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Lockheed Martin
- Vehicle
- Atlas V
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2006-001
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Jan 19, 2006, 19:00 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Jan 19 2006
- Pad and location
- SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Current mission status
Current mission status
Now
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
Hardware
Spacecraft
New Horizons
Pluto/Kuiper Belt probe.
- GCAT ID
- S28928
- Manufacturer
- JHU-Applied Physics Lab
- Launch mass
- 478 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.7 m long · 2.7 m diameter · 3 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
11 images from New Horizons.
Verification
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