List of New Horizons topics

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rdf:langString List of New Horizons topics is a list of topics related to the New Horizons spacecraft, an unmanned space probe launched 2006 to Pluto and beyond. On January 19, 2006 it was launched directly into a solar-escape trajectory at 16.26 kilometers per second (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas V version with 5 SRBs and Star 48B thirdstage . New Horizons passed the Moon's orbit in just nine hours. * 132524 APL, Distant observation target * 15810 Arawn (1994 JR1), Distant observation target * 2011 HM102, Neptune Trojan considered as an observation target * 2011 KW48, distant observation target * 2014 MT69, former candidate for New Horizons flyby. * 2014 OS393, former potential flyby target * 2014 PN70, former potential flyby target * 486958 Arrokoth, flyby on New Year's Day 2019 * Alice (spacecraft instrument), one of seven major instruments on New Horizons * Alice Bowman, New Horizons staff * AJ-60A, solid rocket booster of which five were used in the New Horizons launch. * Atlas V, New Horizons launch vehicle * Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, launch site * Centaur (rocket stage), New Horizons upper stage * Charon (moon), Pluto's big moon * Common Core Booster, part of New Horizons first stage launcher * Clyde Tombaugh, discovered Pluto in 1930 from Lowell Observatory * Kirk (crater) * Kuiper belt, region from about 30-60 AU New Horizons explores * Lisa Hardaway, New Horizons staff * Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons * GPHS-RTG, electrical and thermal heat source of New Horizons * Interplanetary dust cloud * Interplanetary medium, studied during Hibernation * Mongoose-V, CPU in New Horizons * NASA Deep Space Network, for New Horizons Earth radio communications * Nasreddin (crater) * New Frontiers program, NASA parent program of New Horizons * New Horizons 2, design study for twin * Organa (crater) * Pluto, primary target of New Horizons * Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons * Ralph, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons * REX, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons * Daniel Sarokon, NASA employee honored at New Horizons launch * Star 48B, New Horizons 3rd stage * Alan Stern, New Horizons staff * SWAP, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons * Tvashtar Paterae * Vader (crater), crater observed by New Horizons * Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons * Venetia Burney, New Horizons instrument honorific, Burney proposed Pluto's name in 1930