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United Launch AllianceLaunch SuccessfulRobotic ExplorationAtlas V 551
Launched 2006-01-19 19:00 UTCSpace Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Solar Escape Trajectory
Worldwide
1st
orbital launch attempt in 2006
United Launch Alliance
1st
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 41
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
160 d 7 h
since the pad's previous launch
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.
Launch Provider
Commercial · United States of America · Founded 2006 · CEO Mark Peller
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. ULA launches from both coasts of the US. They launch their Atlas V vehicle from LC-41 in Cape Canaveral and LC-3E at Vandeberg. Their Delta IV launches from LC-37 at Cape Canaveral and LC-6 at Vandenberg.
Launches
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Successful
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Upcoming
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scheduled
Height
59.7m
Diameter
3.8m
To low Earth orbit
18,850kg
Liftoff thrust
12,269kN
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