What is the name of the Space Probe launched in 2006 to study Pluto?
"the 1970s, including the Helios probes to study the Sun, the Viking probes to Mars, and the Voyager planetary flyby and deep-space probes. More recent probes have also been launched from LC-41 using the Atlas V: the ""Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter"" in December 2004, the ""New Horizons"" spacecraft to Pluto in January 2006, The ""Juno"" mission to Jupiter in August 2011, and The Mars Science Laboratory to Mars in November 2011. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), previously Launch Complex 41 (LC-41), is an active launch site at"
"groups based on Planetary Science Decadal Survey goals. ""New Horizons"", a mission to Pluto, was launched on January 19, 2006. After a Jupiter gravity assist in February 2007 the spacecraft continued towards Pluto. The primary mission flyby occurred in July 2015 and the spacecraft was then targeted toward one Kuiper Belt object called for a January 1, 2019 flyby. Another mission that was considered with this mission was ""New Horizons 2"". ""Juno"" is a Jupiter exploration mission which launched on August 5, 2011 and arrived in July 2016. It is the first solar-powered spacecraft to explore an outer planet. The"
"(Mars 2020 and InSight) and Saturn and studies of the Earth and the Sun. Other active spacecraft missions are ""Juno"" for Jupiter, ""New Horizons"" (for Jupiter, Pluto, and beyond), and ""Dawn"" for the asteroid belt. NASA continued to support ""in situ"" exploration beyond the asteroid belt, including Pioneer and Voyager traverses into the unexplored trans-Pluto region, and Gas Giant orbiters ""Galileo"" (1989–2003), ""Cassini"" (1997–2017), and ""Juno"" (2011–). The ""New Horizons"" mission to Pluto was launched in 2006 and successfully performed a flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The probe received a gravity assist from Jupiter in February 2007, examining"
"""in situ"" exploration beyond the asteroid belt, including Pioneer and Voyager traverses into the unexplored trans-Pluto region, and Gas Giant orbiters ""Galileo"" (1989–2003), ""Cassini""(1997–2017), and ""Juno"" (2011–). In the early 2000s, NASA was put on course for the Moon, however in 2010 this program was cancelled (see Constellation program). As part of that plan the Shuttle was going to be replaced, however, although it was retired its replacement was also cancelled, leaving the US with no human spaceflight launcher for the first time in over three decades. The ""New Horizons"" mission to Pluto was launched in 2006 and successfully performed"
"in February 2006 and February 2007, only the first twenty-three days of the 2006 window permitted the Jupiter flyby. Any launch outside that period would have forced the spacecraft to fly a slower trajectory directly to Pluto, delaying its encounter by five to six years. The probe was launched by a Lockheed Martin Atlas V 551 rocket, with a third stage added to increase the heliocentric (escape) speed. This was the first launch of the Atlas V 551 configuration, which uses five solid rocket boosters, and the first Atlas V with a third stage. Previous flights had used zero, two,"
"Pluto Kuiper Express Pluto Kuiper Express was an interplanetary space probe that was proposed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists and engineers and under development by NASA. The spacecraft was intended to be launched to study Pluto and its moon Charon, along with one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). The proposal was the third of its kind, after the ""Pluto 350"" and a proposal to send a Mariner Mark II spacecraft to Pluto. Originally conceived as ""Pluto Fast Flyby"", and later briefly named ""Pluto Express"", the mission was inspired by a 1991 United States Postal Service stamp that"
"name Pluto in the 1930s as a girl, and she was given a plaque related to this naming in December, 2006. Venetia suggested the name Pluto after the discovery of the new planet by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 at Lowell Observatory. The name Pluto was selected in a vote by the observatory's astronomers. In 2006 , the NH Principal Investigator was able to present Venetia with plaque about the naming of the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter after her. Previously the instrument was called the ""Student Dust Counter"". Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC)"
"of a probe and orbiter to Venus. Pioneer Terra Pioneer Terra is a region on the dwarf planet Pluto, north of Tombaugh Regio and east of Voyager Terra. It was discovered by the ""New Horizons"" spacecraft on 14 July 2015. It is named for the ""Pioneer"" program, which included ""Pioneer 10"" and ""Pioneer 11"", the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and explore Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the first to explore the outer solar system; ""Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9"", which formed an ""interplanetary weather network""; ""Pioneer 1"" through ""5"", which explored the Moon in various"
"a flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The probe received a gravity assist from Jupiter in February 2007, examining some of Jupiter's inner moons and testing on-board instruments during the flyby. On the horizon of NASA's plans is the ""MAVEN"" spacecraft as part of the Mars Scout Program to study the atmosphere of Mars. On December 4, 2006, NASA announced it was planning a permanent Moon base. The goal was to start building the Moon base by 2020, and by 2024, have a fully functional base that would allow for crew rotations and in-situ resource utilization. However, in 2009,"
"either completely or partially filled with liquid hydrocarbons is significantly strengthened by subsequent observations by other ""Cassini"" instruments. Her team was also responsible for the first sighting of plumes erupting from Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon. They first suggested, and provided detailed scientific arguments, that these jets might be geysers erupting from reservoirs of near-surface liquid water under the south pole of the small moon. Porco was a member of the imaging team for the ""New Horizons"" mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt through 2014. The probe made its Pluto flyby in 2015. As the ""Cassini"" imaging team lead,"
"Pioneer Terra Pioneer Terra is a region on the dwarf planet Pluto, north of Tombaugh Regio and east of Voyager Terra. It was discovered by the ""New Horizons"" spacecraft on 14 July 2015. It is named for the ""Pioneer"" program, which included ""Pioneer 10"" and ""Pioneer 11"", the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and explore Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the first to explore the outer solar system; ""Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9"", which formed an ""interplanetary weather network""; ""Pioneer 1"" through ""5"", which explored the Moon in various ways; and the Pioneer Venus project, consisting"
"Pluto Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun. After 1992, its status as a planet was questioned following the discovery of several objects of similar size in the Kuiper belt. In 2005, Eris, a dwarf planet in the scattered disc which is 27% more massive than Pluto, was discovered. This led the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to"
"Juno (spacecraft) Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 (UTC), as part of the New Frontiers program, and entered a polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5, 2016 (UTC),(July 4, US time) to begin a scientific investigation of the planet. After completing its mission, ""Juno"" will be intentionally deorbited into Jupiter's atmosphere. ""Juno"" mission is to measure Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. It will also"
"PLATO (spacecraft) PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a space observatory under development by the European Space Agency for launch in 2026. The mission goals are to search for planetary transits across up to one million stars, and to discover and characterize rocky extrasolar planets around yellow dwarf stars (like our sun), subgiant stars, and red dwarf stars. The emphasis of the mission is on earth-like planets in the habitable zone around sun-like stars where water can exist in liquid state. It is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme and named after the influential Greek"
"ringed system and moons. The NASA probe was launched with ESA lander Huygens on October 1, 1997 from Cape Canaveral. The Cassini probe entered Saturn orbit on July 1, 2004, and Huygens landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on January 14, 2005. On September 15, 2017, the probe was de-orbited and burned up in Saturn's atmosphere, after almost 20 years in space. First probe to be launched to Pluto. Launched on January 19, 2006, it flew by the Pluto–Charon system on July 14, 2015. First spacecraft to visit and orbit a protoplanet (4 Vesta), entering orbit on July 16, 2011."
"Kepler-6 Kepler-6 is a yellow giant situated in the constellation Cygnus. The star lies within the field of view of the Kepler Mission, which discovered it as part of a NASA-led mission to discover Earth-like planets. The star, which is slightly larger, more metal-rich, slightly cooler, and more massive than the Sun, is orbited by at least one extrasolar planet, a Jupiter-sized planet named Kepler-6b that orbits closely to its star. Kepler-6 was named for the Kepler Mission, a NASA project launched in 2009 that aims to discover Earth-like planets that transit, or cross in front of, their home stars"
"design with seven channels, including red, blue, near-infrared (NIR), and methane. Ralph is one of seven major instruments aboard ""New Horizons"" which was launched in 2006 and flew-by the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015. At Pluto, Ralph enables the observation of many aspects including: Ralph and Alice were used to characterize the atmosphere of Pluto in 2015. Ralph was previously used to observer the planet Jupiter and its moons in 2006 and in 2007 when it flew-by en route out of the Solar System and past Pluto. Observations of Jupiter were taken with Ralph in February 2007, when ""New Horizons"""
"program describes a fusion-enabled Pluto orbiter and lander based on the Princeton field-reversed configuration reactor. Pluto Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun. After 1992, its status as a planet was questioned following the discovery of several objects of similar size in the Kuiper belt. In 2005, Eris, a dwarf planet in the scattered disc which is"
"occupied by centaurs, various fields of trojans, and many comets. Pluto was considered to be an outer planet from its discovery in 1930 until its reclassification as a dwarf planet in 2006 (see also: Kuiper belt). ""In situ"" exploration by spacecraft includes ""Pioneer 10"", ""Pioneer 11"", ""Voyager 1"", ""Voyager 2"", ""Ulysses"", ""Galileo"", ""Cassini–Huygens"", and ""New Horizons"". Planned missions include ""Juno"" Jupiter Orbiter and possibly the Outer Planet Flagship Missions; there are various proposals too, such as Uranus orbiter and probe. Ongoing missions for the outer planets as of 2011 include Cassini probe, orbiting Saturn, New Horizons, headed for Pluto, and"
"branded Pluto as ""Not Yet Explored"". The project brought on JPL engineers and students from the California Institute of Technology and, later, Alan Stern and other scientists from the Pluto 350 project. While the project was initiated in 1992, the project's development phase was lengthy, spending nearly a decade in the proposal and funding stage. During planning, the mission was changed to include a Kuiper belt object flyby and re-christened the ""Pluto Kuiper Express"", after the discovery of numerous such objects beyond Neptune in the mid-to-late 1990s. NASA ultimately decided to cancel the mission in 2000, however, citing the project's"
"SPRITE (spacecraft) SPRITE (Saturn PRobe Interior and aTmospheric Explorer) is a proposed Saturn atmospheric probe mission concept submitted in 2016 to NASA's New Frontiers program mission 4, but it was not selected for development at that time. The way that program works, it may be resubmitted in another selection process. New Frontiers is larger size mission with fewer opportunities, that started with the New Horizons's probe to Pluto and beyond with mission exceeding 1 billion U.S. dollars. SPRITE is a design for a atmospheric entry probe that would travel to Saturn from Earth on its own cruise stage, then enter"
"spacecraft launch. New Horizons was launched by its stack in January 2006, and the Star 48B booster was launched along with the New Horizons's spacecraft on an escape trajectory out of the Solar System. The Star 48B ignited and burned for 48-seconds, taking both on a trajectory past Pluto; however because the Star 48B became derelict and did not have course corrections like the NH spacecraft, it would be projected to miss Pluto by hundreds of millions of miles. ""New Horizons"" Star 48B was calculated to arrive at planet Jupiter 6 hours before ""New Horizons"", and on Oct 15, 2015"
"of a gravity assist from Jupiter. ""New Horizons"" made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, after a 3,462-day journey across the Solar System. Scientific observations of Pluto began five months before the closest approach and continued for at least a month after the encounter. Observations were conducted using a remote sensing package that included imaging instruments and a radio science investigation tool, as well as spectroscopic and other experiments. The scientific goals of ""New Horizons"" were to characterize the global geology and morphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, map their surface composition, and analyze Pluto's neutral"
"a general test of ""New Horizons"" scientific capabilities, returning data about the planet's atmosphere, moons, and magnetosphere. Most of the post-Jupiter voyage was spent in hibernation mode to preserve on-board systems, except for brief annual checkouts. On December 6, 2014, ""New Horizons"" was brought back online for the Pluto encounter, and instrument check-out began. On January 15, 2015, the ""New Horizons"" spacecraft began its approach phase to Pluto. On July 14, 2015, at 11:49 UTC, it flew above the surface of Pluto, making it the first spacecraft to explore the dwarf planet. On October 25, 2016, at 21:48 UTC, the"
"December 16, 2006. The very small NASA satellite has proven that scientists can quickly design and launch a new class of inexpensive spacecraft—and conduct significant science. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission to look for water on the moon was a 'secondary payload spacecraft.' LCROSS began its trip to the moon on the same rocket as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which continues to conduct a different lunar task. It launched in April 2009 on an Atlas V rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The Kepler mission is NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller"
"Clyde Tombaugh Clyde William Tombaugh (; February 4, 1906January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt. At the time of discovery, Pluto was considered a planet but was later controversially reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids. He also called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. Tombaugh was born in Streator, Illinois, son of Muron Dealvo Tombaugh, a farmer, and his wife Adella Pearl Chritton. After his family moved to"
"2000, the ""Cassini"" probe flew by Jupiter on its way to Saturn, and provided some of the highest-resolution images ever made of the planet. The ""New Horizons"" probe flew by Jupiter for a gravity assist en route to Pluto. Its closest approach was on February 28, 2007. The probe's cameras measured plasma output from volcanoes on Io and studied all four Galilean moons in detail, as well as making long-distance observations of the outer moons Himalia and Elara. Imaging of the Jovian system began September 4, 2006. The first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter was the ""Galileo"" probe, which entered orbit"
"In September 2006, the IAU included Pluto, and Eris and its moon Dysnomia, in their Minor Planet Catalogue, giving them the official minor planet designations ""(134340) Pluto"", ""(136199) Eris"", and ""(136199) Eris I Dysnomia"". Had Pluto been included upon its discovery in 1930, it would have likely been designated 1164, following 1163 Saga, which was discovered a month earlier. There has been some resistance within the astronomical community toward the reclassification. Alan Stern, principal investigator with NASA's ""New Horizons"" mission to Pluto, derided the IAU resolution, stating that ""the definition stinks, for technical reasons"". Stern contended that, by the terms"
"1998. NASA tried to negotiate with Russia for use of Proton rockets to launch the spacecrafts, in exchange for carrying Russian ""Drop Zond"" probes to Pluto. Another idea, emanating from the Max Planck Institute, would have had Germany contribute funding for the launch, in exchange for Pluto Express carrying a German probe to be dropped at Io during the Jupiter gravity assist. The timing of the mission was important, as it would have passed Pluto shortly before its atmosphere froze, which it was thought to do for a considerable part of its orbit. The mission's main objectives would have been"
"Carnegie Institution of Washington, a subgroup of the IAU met on August 18, 2006 and held a straw poll on the draft proposal: only 18 were in favour of it, with over 50 against. The 50 in opposition preferred an alternative proposal drawn up by Uruguayan astronomers Gonzalo Tancredi and Julio Ángel Fernández. Under this proposal, Pluto would have been demoted to a dwarf planet. On 22 August the draft proposal was rewritten with two changes from the previous draft. The first was a generalisation of the name of the new class of planets (previously the draft resolution had explicitly"
"of ""Juno"" orbiter of Jupiter including solar panels. The proposed design of the descend probes would be similar to that of the Galileo's atmospheric Entry Probe. The mission would be generally based on existing technology. Kronos (spacecraft) Kronos is a concept mission to Saturn. It is aimed at detailed study of the chemical composition of Saturn's atmosphere, gravity and magnetic fields. The proposal consists of the solar powered carrier spacecraft, two atmospheric probes and (possibly) two small probes for the close-up imaging of the Saturnian rings. Kronos was proposed in 2009 as a collaboration between NASA and ESA. After the"
"remembered, ""though he's got to go one long, cold trip."" The call eventually led to the launch of the ""New Horizons"" space probe to Pluto in 2006. Following the passage on July 14, 2015 of Pluto by the ""New Horizons"" spacecraft the ""Cold Heart of Pluto"" was named Tombaugh Regio. Tombaugh died on January 17, 1997, when he was in Las Cruces, New Mexico, at the age of 90. He was cremated. A small portion of his ashes was placed aboard the ""New Horizons"" spacecraft. The container includes the inscription: ""Interred herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer"
"for 2003–2013. Weiler and then-Solar System Exploration Division Director Colleen Hartman established the New Frontiers program in 2003 to help fund and launch ""New Horizons"" and future proposals from the Decadal Survey. ""New Horizons"" was launched as the program's first mission on January 20, 2006, and successfully performed the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons in July 2015. An extended mission is underway to observe Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), including a flyby of Ultima Thule in January 2019. In the first New Frontiers AO, ""Juno"", a mission to investigate the interior of Jupiter, was selected over the ""MoonRise"" lunar"