New Horizons Trajectory Animation

[parker_aug]

And just imagine how precise and complicated these calculations must have been considering the relative distance between these objects. It's like flicking a pea from America and hoping it will pass by another pea sitting in China.

[laup]

I would have liked the trajectory to've been dated at various intervals so one can figure just where it is at various times of its voyage. But good enough.

[Yeshayahu.]

This ship had very powerful engines (on entire rocket, no only in probe)

[djgaben]

I imagine had Jupiter not been there for the flyby, they instead would have shot it out toward Neptunes area toward the end to try and gauge plutos speed

[FreethinkingSecularist]

Great video...It is about time someone posted a comment in appreciation.

[OlezhikChanal]

От Юпитера очень тяжело попасть в Плутон, который находится вне плоскости эклиптики.

[nilz]

Woah woah woah hold on hold on, The centaur never had enough delta v to go direct jupiter with juno, but yet with new horizions it did? somethings strange here.

[goerto]

The Earth is traveling around the Sun at 67k mph would not NH continue in this orbit and orbital speed creating a wider arc?

[shubhamrawat]

But how they know that pluto will be near when new horizon crosses the pluto orbit??? How??

[sdfrtyjuklkhgr]

Why couldnt it just fly past Uranus and Neptune :(( Only 1 spacecraft have been there and that was over 30 years ago

[jimmy]

i dont understand why New Horizon didnt need earth gravity assist like Juno?