New Horizons Successfully Flies By Ultima Thule
LAUREL, Md. (JHUAPL PR) — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of...
View ArticleNew Movie Shows Ultima Thule from an Approaching New Horizons
LAUREL, Md. (JHUAPL PR) — This movie shows the propeller-like rotation of Ultima Thule in the seven hours between 20:00 UT (3 p.m. ET) on Dec. 31, 2018, and 05:01 UT (12:01 a.m.) on Jan. 1, 2019, as...
View ArticleNew Horizons Spacecraft Returns Its Sharpest Views of Ultima Thule
LAUREL, Md. (NASA PR) — The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible...
View ArticleSee Ultima Thule in 3D
LAUREL, Md. (NASA PR) — Cross your eyes and break out the 3D glasses! NASA’s New Horizons team has created new stereo views of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule – the target of the New...
View ArticleNASA’s New Horizons Team Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby Science Results
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-team-publishes-first-kuiper-belt-flyby-science-results NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever...
View ArticleNew Horizons Kuiper Belt Flyby Object Officially Named ‘Arrokoth’
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 has been officially named Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning “sky”...
View ArticleNIAC Award: Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter
NASA Innovative Advance Concepts (NIAC) Phase I AwardAmount: $125,000 Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter Gerald JacksonHbar Technologies, LLC Antimatter-based propulsion and...
View ArticleThe PI’s Perspective: Probing Farther in the Kuiper Belt with New Horizons
New Horizons Mission Updateby Alan SternPrincipal Investigator New Horizons is healthy and performing perfectly as it flies deeper and deeper into the Kuiper Belt! Recently we conducted an engineering...
View ArticleProposed NASA Mission Would Visit Neptune’s Curious Moon Triton
PASADENA, Calif. (NASA PR) — When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune’s strange moon Triton three decades ago, it wrote a planetary science cliffhanger. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to...
View ArticleComet Makes a Pit Stop Near Jupiter’s Asteroids
PASADENA, Calif. (NASA PR) — For the first time, a wayward comet-like object has been spotted near the family of ancient asteroids. After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young...
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