Today, the spacecraft is at a really significant distance from the Earth and represents
As New Horizons traveled throughIn the solar system, the distance from a ship to Earth has increased from millions to billions of miles, and the time between contacts has increased from minutes to hours. In April, the mission reached a rare milestone in deep space - 50 astronomical units from the Sun (this is 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth).
New Horizons is only the fifth spacecraft to reach such a vast distance after the legendary Voyager 1 and 2 and their predecessors, Pioneers 10 and 11.It is located at a distance of 7.5 billion kilometers.
To mark the occasion, New Horizons recently photographed a starfield where one of its distant cousins, Voyager 1, is.
New Horizons is an American automatic interplanetary station (AIS) launched as part of NASA's New Frontiers program.The main mission was to study Pluto and its natural satellite Charon.
The launch was carried out on January 19, 2006 , the spacecraft performed a flyby of Jupiter (with a gravitational maneuver in its gravitational field) in 2007 and a scientific program to study Pluto in 2015 . In early 2019, Kuiper Belt objects were studied, and in April 2020, New Horizons was used to clarify the distances to the stars Wolf 359 and Proxima Centauri.The full New Horizons research program is designed for 15-17 years.
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