New Horizons mission to Pluto

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/New_Horizons_mission_to_Pluto

GPTKB entity

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:satellite
gptkbp:ArrokothFlybyDate	2019-01-01
gptkbp:distanceFromEarthAtPlutoFlyby	~4.8 billion km
gptkbp:firstCloseImagesOf	gptkb:Pluto gptkb:Charon Pluto's moons
gptkbp:firstMissionTo	gptkb:Pluto
gptkbp:flybyDate	2015-07-14
gptkbp:fundedBy	gptkb:NASA_New_Frontiers_program
gptkbp:goal	study Kuiper Belt objects study Pluto and its moons
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	New Horizons mission to Pluto
gptkbp:instrument	gptkb:Alice gptkb:LORRI gptkb:PEPSSI gptkb:REX gptkb:SDC gptkb:SWAP gptkb:Ralph
gptkbp:KuiperBeltObjectFlyby	gptkb:2014_MU69_(Arrokoth)
gptkbp:launchDate	2006-01-19
gptkbp:launchMass	478 kg
gptkbp:launchSite	gptkb:Cape_Canaveral_Space_Launch_Complex_41
gptkbp:launchVehicle	gptkb:Atlas_V_551
gptkbp:managedBy	gptkb:Johns_Hopkins_University_Applied_Physics_Laboratory
gptkbp:missionCost	~$700 million
gptkbp:missionDurationAtPlutoFlyby	9 years, 5 months, 25 days
gptkbp:missionType	flyby
gptkbp:notableFinds	gptkb:Pluto's_heart-shaped_Tombaugh_Regio Pluto's blue atmospheric haze complex geology on Pluto detailed images of Arrokoth mountain ranges of water ice on Pluto surface features on Charon
gptkbp:officialName	gptkb:New_Horizons
gptkbp:operatedBy	gptkb:NASA
gptkbp:period	gptkb:Kuiper_Belt_Extended_Mission
gptkbp:powerSource	gptkb:nuclear_reactor
gptkbp:principalInvestigator	gptkb:Alan_Stern
gptkbp:spacecraft	gptkb:New_Horizons
gptkbp:speedAtPlutoFlyby	~14 km/s
gptkbp:status	active
gptkbp:supportsProtocol	X-band radio
gptkbp:target	gptkb:Pluto gptkb:Kuiper_Belt
gptkbp:team	over 200 scientists and engineers
gptkbp:website	https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:APL_(Applied_Physics_Laboratory)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7