Atlas V 551 | New Horizons

Informazioni sulla missione

Lancio 2006-01-19T19:00:00
Esito SUCCESSO
Tipo missione Esplorazione robotica
Orbita Traiettoria di fuga dal Sole (Solar Esc.)
Rampa Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (USA) :map:

Lanciatore

Nome Atlas V 551 Wiki
Costruttore United Launch Alliance Wiki Info
Fornitore servizi di lancio United Launch Alliance Wiki Info
Primo volo 2006-01-19
Numero stadi 2
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 23/23 (23 consecutivi)
Booster None

Ultimo aggiornamento: 2026-09-09T21:54:02 con AstronautiBOT 2026.09.07 - Fonte: LaunchLibrary2 API

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.