[2006-01-19] Atlas V 551 | New Horizons

astronautibot · 18 Gennaio 2006, 7:00pm

Date di riferimento


Data di lancio	2006-01-19 19:00:00

Status attuale


Stato attuale	SUCCESSO
Probabilità	-

Missione

Missione	Tipo	Orbita
New Horizons	Esplorazione robotica	Traiettoria di fuga dal Sole (Solar Esc.)

Rampa di lancio


Nome	Space Launch Complex 41^{1 2}
Località	Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Lanci totali	102

Lanciatore


Vettore	Atlas V 551¹
Produttore	United Launch Alliance ^{1 2}
Fornitore servizi di lancio	United Launch Alliance ^{1 2}
Primo volo	2006-01-19
Numero stadi	2
Dimensioni	altezza: 59,70 m diametro: 3,80 m
Peso al lancio	573 t
Spinta al decollo	12.269 kN
Capacità di carico	LEO: 18.850 kg GTO: 8.890 kg
Successi/Lanci totali	12/12 (12 consecutivi)

Ultimo aggiornamento: 2021-12-09 01:03 con AstronautiBOT 8.1 - Fonte: LaunchLibrary2 API

astronautibot · 18 Gennaio 2006, 7:00pm

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA’s New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by S. Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow. It is the fifth artificial object to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System.