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New Horizons Spacecraft Spacecraft:   New Horizons Produced by:   NASA Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Date Released:  19 January 2006 Related Documents New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby Pluto Charon Kuiper Belt Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size VSS00043.jpg JPEG 426 x 640 71K VSS00043.jpg JPEG 2000 x 3008 572K In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the New Horizons spacecraft rests on a work stand. New Horizons will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. The mission will then visit one or more objects in the Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune. New Horizons is scheduled to launch in January 2006, swing past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February or March 2007, and reach Pluto and its moon, Charon, in July 2015.

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