Tue 17 Jan. 2006. A mission to an unexplored planet is being launched for the first time since the Voyager craft left for Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s.
New Horizons' trip to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Objects will mean that all the Solar System's planets have been visited.Science/Nature Mission guide: The huge distance New Horizons must cross to reach Pluto means it will not arrive until July 2015 - at the very earliest.
To achieve that, Nasa must launch the probe before 3 February, so that it can "slingshot" around Jupiter and use the planet's gravity to achieve speeds of about 25km/s (56,000mph). ns
The huge distance New Horizons must cross to reach Pluto means it will not arrive until July 2015 - at the very earliest.
To achieve that, Nasa must launch the probe before 3 February, so that it can "slingshot" around Jupiter and use the planet's gravity to achieve speeds of about 25km/s (56,000mph).
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