{"id":6784,"date":"2015-07-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/New-Horizons-Spacecraft-Pluto-Flyby\/ba-p\/307587"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:59:20","slug":"new-horizons-spacecraft-pluto-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/new-horizons-spacecraft-pluto-flyby\/","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons Spacecraft Pluto Flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>&nbsp;The New Horizons spacecraft was in the news recently after flying past Pluto and beaming back some amazing images. Designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory<\/A> for the NASA mission,&nbsp;Femap was used to create the simulation model. The spacecraft is a robust lightweight observatory the size of a grand piano and recently completed the 9-year, 3-billion mile long journey from Earth to the far reaches of the solar system.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/14713i8AF7F05DBEAD0608\/image-size\/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999\" alt=\"Pluto\" title=\"Pluto\" \/><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Launched aboard an Atlas V rocket in January 2006, New Horizons has been steadily making its way towards the edge of the solar system. The spacecraft passed by Jupiter a little over a year later, and used the planet\u2019s gravity to boost its speed to about 50,000 km\/h shaving 3 years off the journey and making it the fastest spacecraft ever launched.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/14714iE5EFAD91B2DB5C09\/image-size\/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999\" alt=\"New Horizons Femap FE Model\" title=\"New Horizons Femap FE Model\" \/><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>You can read more about this incredible mission on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">JHUAPL<\/A> site, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/newhorizons\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA<\/A> site.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The New Horizons spacecraft was in the news recently after flying past Pluto and beaming back some amazing images. 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