New Horizons: NASA’s Mission to Pluto & the Kuiper Belt
Date & Time: April 8th, 2026, 5:00-6:00 pm EST
Registration: https://aiaa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7QlYKUu7Qs2UN5rcTBKo9w
The AIAA New England Section is organizing an expert webinar session. Come and listen to
Alice Bowman talk about the historic mission through the solar system to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Abstract:
This presentation is an overview of NASA’s historic mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt – which culminated with the first flight past the distant dwarf planet on 14 July 2015 and the first encounter with a Kuiper Belt object on 1 January 2019. It includes looks at New Horizons’ continuing journey through the eyes of the APL mission operations team as well as the technical, scientific, and personal challenges of piloting a spacecraft across the solar system on its voyage to the farthest reaches of the planetary frontier.