New Horizons
Solar Powered Jupiter bound JUNO lands at Kennedy Space Center for blastoff
[/caption] Juno, NASA’s next big mission bound for the outer planets, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to kick…
13 years ago
New Horizons Flies by Uranus
The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft will fly by another planet today (March 18, 2011). However, the robotic craft won’t be…
13 years ago
New Horizons Mission Practices Telescopic Imager on Pluto’s Twin
[/caption] This summer, the New Horizons spacecraft was awoken for its annual systems checkout, and took the opportunity to exercise…
14 years ago
New Horizons Spacecraft Now Closer to Pluto Than Earth
[/caption] The New Horizons spacecraft crossed a milestone boundary today: it is now closer to its primary destination, Pluto, than…
14 years ago
Pluto’s Moons, Nix and Hydra, may have been Adopted
How many moons does Pluto have? The mini-moons of Pluto, Nix and Hydra, were discovered in 2005 (but named…
16 years ago
New Horizons Prepares to Zoom to Pluto
The New Horizons mission to Pluto has been called ?The First Mission to the Last Planet,? and it?s the first…
19 years ago