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New Horizons
- Joint project between NASA and John Hopkins
- Launched in 2006
- Cost ~$700 million
- Part of the New Frontiers mission
- Launched by the Atlas V rocket
- Fastest object launched from Earth
Mission
Probe
- Roughly the same size as a large grand piano
- ~470 kg
- Powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator
- Nuclear battery
- Plutonium-238
Instruments
- LORRI
- SWAP
- Solar Winds Around Pluto
- Electrostatic analyzer to measure solar winds
- PEPSSI
- REX
- Radio Science Experiment
- Sends radio waves through an objects atmosphere
- Detect and assess various characteristics of the atmosphere
- Alice
- Ralph
- Telescope
- Two sub-instruments
- LEISA
- MVIC
- VBSDC
- Created by students from the University of Colorado
- Collect and measure space dust