New Horizons was sent to record data on Mars .
Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory -LRB- APL -RRB- and the Southwest Research Institute -LRB- SwRI -RRB- , 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 -LRB- KBOs -RRB- in the decade to follow .
New Horizons