New Horizons

New Horizons — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore New Horizons in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

Gave humanity its first close look at Pluto in 2015, revealing nitrogen glaciers and a heart-shaped plain. It is still flying outward, studying the Kuiper Belt from inside it.

Launched
19 Jan 2006
Status
Active — exploring the Kuiper Belt

Explore New Horizons in 3D

Explore New Horizons along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.

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