New Horizons: mission and targets

Project start

January 19, 2006

Declared end

October 26, 2016

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.

Targets you can open in 3D:

• Pluto
• Earth
• Jupiter
• Charon
• Hydra
• Kerberos
• Nix
• Styx
• Callisto
• Europa
• Ganymede
• Io

Spacecraft of this mission that Galaxy follows:

• New Horizons

A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.

New Horizons mission was the first to fly by and study the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons Charon, Nix, and Hydra. As the New Horizons spacecraft passed through the Jovian system for a gravity assist in February of 2007, it performed scientific observations of Jupiter, the Galilean satellites, the Jovian rings, Himalia, Elara, and Earth. After the successfull flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, the spacecraft continued on for extended missions in the Kuiper Belt.

Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.

• DUST (dust)
• SOLAR WIND (plasma stream)
• Jupiter Rings (ring)
• Callirrhoe (satellite)
• Elara (satellite)
• Himalia (satellite)

Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.new_horizons

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/

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