New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission 1: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- October 26, 2016
- Declared end
- September 30, 2022
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
In Galaxy
None of the targets this mission declares is in Galaxy’s catalogue.
Spacecraft of this mission that Galaxy follows:
A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
The first extended mission of the New Horizons spacecraft in the Kuiper Belt, KEM1 included the close flyby of (486958) Arrokoth (2014 MU69), a Kuiper Blet Object (KBO), as well as survey observations of the Kuiper Belt environment.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Other targets declared
- DUST (dust)
- SOLAR WIND (plasma stream)
- (486958) Arrokoth (trans-Neptunian object)
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.new_horizons_kem1
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/