Scheduled to do it's flyby on July 14, 2015, the NASA launched probe New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006 to do explore what heavenly body?
NASA (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
New Horizons leave the Solar System. On January 19, 2006, "New Horizons" was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by an Atlas V rocket directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory with a speed of about . At launch, it was the fastest probe ever launched from Earth, but was beaten by the Parker Solar Probe on 12 August 2018. After a brief encounter with asteroid 132524 APL, "New Horizons" proceeded to Jupiter, making its closest approach on February 28, 2007, at a distance of . The Jupiter flyby provided a gravity assist that increased "New Horizons" speed; the flyby also enabled