New Horizons
COSPAR 2006-001A · NORAD 28928
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 2006-01-19
- Launch site code
- AFETR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 2006-001A
- NORAD ID
- 28,928
Source:NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Orbit center code
- SU
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- CelesTrak lists it in orbit around the Sun, not Earth.
- Someone born in its launch year (2006) turns 20 this year.