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The 20 Most Important NASA Spacecraft Active in 2023 (And What They're Up to in Space)
The 20 Most Important NASA Spacecraft Active in 2023 (And What They're Up to in Space)

23 Dec 2023, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA has over 100 active missions, each with their own accompanying spacecraft. We narrowed the list down to the 20 most impressive ones.

 
NASAs New Horizons Begins Extended 2nd Mission, Could Keep Exploring Into the 2050s
NASAs New Horizons Begins Extended 2nd Mission, Could Keep Exploring Into the 2050s

2 Dec 2022, 17:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Launched nearly 17 years ago in January 2006, New Horizons famously captured what is probably the most vivid pictures mankind will likely ever have of Pluto

 
NASA Says This Invisible Dot Is Voyager 1, Photographed by Distant New Horizons
NASA Says This Invisible Dot Is Voyager 1, Photographed by Distant New Horizons

21 Apr 2021, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases a photo of the Voyager 1 spacecraft taken billions of miles away by another very distant spaceship, New Horizons

 
New Horizons Photo Reveals Peanut World Created by Cosmic Fender-Bender
New Horizons Photo Reveals Peanut World Created by Cosmic Fender-Bender

3 Jan 2019, 12:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ultima Thule is a contact binary, looking as a conjoined celestial body comprised of two connected spheres 30 kilometers (19 miles) in diameter

 
New Horizons Spaceship Encounters Ultima Thule, the World Awaits Historic Photo
New Horizons Spaceship Encounters Ultima Thule, the World Awaits Historic Photo

1 Jan 2019, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ultima Thule, known to scientists as (486958) 2014 MU69, is the farthest natural object ever encountered in space by a human-built spacecraft

 
New Horizons Spaceship Nearing Unique Encounter with Ultima Thule on January 1
New Horizons Spaceship Nearing Unique Encounter with Ultima Thule on January 1

27 Dec 2018, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The New Horizons spaceship, currently the second fastest human-made machine, is approaching the Ultima Thule object in the Kuiper Belt

 
New Horizons Fires Engine for Historic Encounter Billions of Miles from Home
New Horizons Fires Engine for Historic Encounter Billions of Miles from Home

7 Oct 2018, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Engineers made the last optical navigation engine burn of the New Horizons spaceships as it nears the Ultima Thule Kuiper belt object.

 
Here’s How New Horizons’ Pluto Flyby Looked Like
Here’s How New Horizons’ Pluto Flyby Looked Like

19 Aug 2015, 10:39 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / New Horizons has recently reached its purpose getting extremely close to Pluto. Several pictures were taken and sent back to Earth