New Horizons (spacecraft) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-02

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00:03:50 1 History
00:07:55 2 Mission profile
00:11:58 3 Goal
00:13:38 4 Design and construction
00:13:48 4.1 Spacecraft subsystems
00:17:03 4.1.1 Propulsion and attitude control
00:19:33 4.1.2 Power
00:22:49 4.1.3 Flight computer
00:24:57 4.1.4 Telecommunications and data handling
00:29:44 5 Science payload
00:30:40 5.1 Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)
00:32:48 5.2 Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP)
00:33:43 5.3 Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI)
00:34:36 5.4 Alice
00:35:49 5.5 Ralph telescope
00:37:15 5.6 Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC)
00:39:33 5.7 Radio Science Experiment (REX)
00:40:20 6 Journey to Pluto
00:40:30 6.1 Launch
00:44:26 6.2 Inner Solar System
00:44:35 6.2.1 Trajectory corrections
00:46:28 6.2.2 In-flight tests and crossing of Mars orbit
00:47:34 6.2.3 Asteroid 132524 APL
00:49:19 6.2.4 First Pluto sighting
00:50:04 6.3 Jupiter encounter
00:53:44 6.3.1 Jovian moons
00:55:24 6.4 Outer Solar System
00:59:10 6.4.1 Possible Neptune trojan targets
01:00:33 6.4.2 Observations of Pluto and Charon 2013–14
01:02:17 6.5 Pluto approach
01:05:38 6.5.1 Software glitch
01:07:30 7 Pluto system encounter
01:09:03 7.1 Objectives
01:12:01 7.2 Flyby details
01:16:16 7.3 Satellite observations
01:18:18 8 Post-Pluto events
01:20:58 9 Mission extension
01:21:41 9.1 Kuiper belt object mission
01:21:51 9.1.1 Target background
01:23:17 9.1.2 Search
01:24:51 9.1.3 Suitable KBOs
01:27:42 9.1.4 KBO selection
01:28:25 9.2 Observations of other KBOs
01:31:19 10 Encounter with span(486958) 2014 MUsub69/sub
01:31:35 10.1 Objectives
01:32:53 10.2 Targeting maneuvers
01:34:24 10.3 Approach phase
01:35:53 10.4 Core phase
01:37:17 10.5 Data download
01:37:53 11 Post span2014 MUsub69/sub
01:38:56 12 Speed
01:42:12 13 Gallery
01:42:21 13.1 Images of the launch
01:42:30 13.2 Videos
01:42:38 14 Timeline
01:42:47 14.1 Preparation phase
01:45:26 14.2 Launch phase
01:45:47 14.3 Jupiter pre-encounter phase
01:46:47 14.4 Jupiter encounter phase
01:47:32 14.5 Pluto pre-encounter phase
01:51:26 14.6 Pluto Science phase
01:52:44 14.7 span(486958) 2014 MUsub69/sub
01:56:41 14.8 span2014 MUsub69/sub
01:58:28 14.9 Post-mission phase
01:58:54 15 See also



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SUMMARY
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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by S. Alan Stern, 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 as of 2019 includes 2014 MU69. It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System.
On January 19, 2006, New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by an Atlas V rocket directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory with a speed of about 16.26 km/s (10.10 mi/s; 58,500 km/h; 36,400 mph). It was the fastest man-made object ever launched from Earth. After a brief encounter with asteroid 132524 APL, New Horizons proceeded to Jupiter, making its closest approach on February 28, 2007, at a distance of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles). The Jupiter flyby provided a gravity assist that increased New Horizons' speed; the flyby also enabled a general test of New Horizons' scientific capabilities, returning data about the planet's atmosphere, moons, and magnetosphere.
Most of the post-Jupiter voyage was spent in hibernation mode to preserve on-board systems, except for brief annual checkouts. On December 6, 2014, New Horizons was brought back online for the P ...