Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched to study the dwarf planet Pluto its moons and one or two Kuiper Belt objects depending on which are in position to be explored. Part of the New Frontiers program the mission was approved in 2001 following the cancellation of the Pluto Fast Flyby and Pluto Kuiper Express. The mission profile was proposed by a team led by principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute.
