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United Launch AllianceAtlas V 551Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
New Horizons
Launched
January 19, 2006
Summary
New Horizons launched on an United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA on January 19, 2006. It was United Launch Alliance's 1st launch, 1st this year and humanity's 4,751st orbital launch attempt. It was the 1st Atlas V 551 flight. The payload was bound for Solar Escape Trajectory (Solar Esc.). 3 objects from this launch are catalogued, one of them a payload.
- Watch
- No webcast on record.
- Vehicle
- Atlas V 551 · United Launch Alliance
- Booster
- No booster details on record.
- Mission
- Robotic Exploration · Solar Escape Trajectory (Solar Esc.)
- Milestone
- 1st Atlas V 551 flightUnited Launch Alliance's 1st launch1st this yearhumanity's 4,751st orbital launch attempt1st orbital launch attempt this year
Flight preview
Catalogued objects
3 catalogued: 1 payload, 1 rocket stage, 1 component
- New Horizons · NORAD 28928 · left Earth orbit January 19, 2006
Centaur AV-010 · left Earth orbit January 20, 2006
Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org
About this 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.
News
Pad
Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
34th launch from Space Launch Complex 41, 1st this year · 638th from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
125 launches from this pad · 1,131 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
160 days after the previous launch from this pad
Questions
When did New Horizons launch?
New Horizons launched on January 19, 2006. The time is known to the hour, not the minute.
Where can I watch New Horizons?
No webcast is on record for this launch.
What rocket launched New Horizons?
Atlas V 551, flown by United Launch Alliance. Atlas V 551 spec sheet
Where did New Horizons launch from?
Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
What orbit was New Horizons going to?
Solar Escape Trajectory (Solar Esc.), a robotic exploration mission.
How many satellites did New Horizons launch?
1 payload from this launch is catalogued (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).