Tag: New Horizons

  • Photos: Delta 4-Heavy launch gallery

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    The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifts off with NASA’s Orion ship on its inaugural space flight test at 7:05 a.m. EST Dec. 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Complex 37. Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images

  • Ground team ready to rouse Pluto probe for historic flyby

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: NASA On the final stretch of a speedy nine-year trek through the solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will be awakened from hibernation Dec. 6 for an encounter with Pluto, a mysterious world that has captured imaginations and will soon be revealed in reality. The…

  • Last-ditch search finds fresh targets for New Horizons

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Scientists using the powerful Hubble Space Telescopes have identified three tiny objects at the frontier of the solar system that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could visit after making an historic flyby of Pluto next…