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PIA22188: New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is about 300 million miles (483 million kilometers) from 2014 MU69, the Kuiper Belt object it will encounter on Jan. 1, 2019.

Mission:	New Horizons
Spacecraft:	New Horizons
Product Size:	1254 x 555 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Johns Hopkins University/APL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA22188.tif (148.5 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA22188.jpg (45.97 kB)

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The New Horizons spacecraft is about 300 million miles (483 million kilometers) from 2014 MU69, the Kuiper Belt object it will encounter on Jan. 1, 2019.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image Credit:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Image Addition Date:

2017-12-10