New Horizons

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1. Story
2. The first mission to Pluto and to a cold-classical Kuiper belt object, still returning data from beyond 50 au. Operated by NASA; launched 2006-01-19; operating. Encounter dates are the operator’s mission record; the encounter order is an order, not a trajectory, and Atlas draws no path for it.
3. Knowledge
4. Jupiter
5. Pluto
6. Arrokoth
7. New Horizons
8. Connections
9. Arrokoth
10. Jupiter
11. Pluto
12. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
13. New Horizons passes Pluto — the first close encounter
14. New Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited
15. New Horizons
16. New Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited
17. Voyager 1
18. Voyager 2
19. Io
20. The Grand Tour alignment
21. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
22. Active volcanism found on Io
23. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
24. Pioneer 10
25. Pioneer 11
26. Galileo
27. Cassini–Huygens
28. New Horizons
29. Juno
30. Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
31. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
32. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
33. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
34. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
35. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
36. Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
37. New Horizons
38. New Horizons passes Pluto — the first close encounter
39. Evidence
40. Launch, Jupiter gravity assist, and the Pluto and Arrokoth flyby dates.