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4 unusual facts about New Horizons


Karabo Moroka

Born into the rich and influential Morokas as the daughter of Paul Moroka, the patriarch of the advertising media firm, New Horizons and sister to Archie and Busang, half-sister to Zakes, Karabo, the only female Moroka at the time, did not have a mother figure whilst growing up.

New Horizons

The craft was launched by a Lockheed Martin Atlas V 551 rocket, with an ATK Star 48B third stage added to increase the heliocentric (escape) speed.

Ralph, designed afterwards, was named after Alice's husband on The Honeymooners.

Between star camera readings, knowledge is provided by dual redundant Miniature Inertial Measurement Unit (MIMU) from Honeywell.


General Purpose Heat Source

GPHSs of this, or very similar, design were used in the GPHS-RTGs of Cassini-Huygens, New Horizons, the Galileo probe, and the Ulysses probe.

Planetary Science Decadal Survey

The survey placed heavy emphasis on Mars exploration including the Mars Exploration Rovers, established of the New Frontiers program including New Horizons mission to study Pluto and established programs in power and propulsion to lay a technological basis for programs in later decades including manned missions beyond Earth orbit.

Plutonium-238

This same RTG power technology has been used in spacecraft such as Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini–Huygens and New Horizons, and in other devices, such as the Mars Science Laboratory,

Solar eclipses on Jupiter

Spacecraft can be used to observe the solar eclipses on Jupiter, these include Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 (1973 and 1974), Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (1979), Galileo orbiter (1995-2003), Cassini-Huygens (2000) and New Horizons (2007) observed the transits of their moons and its shadows.


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Andjei Petras

The gain of the tender for writing of the original music to a movie by the director Mikhail Segal, “Franz+Polina” opened new horizons for Andjei Petras: serious soundtracks performed by a symphonic orchestra.

Humanoids from the Deep

In 1996, a remake of Humanoids from the Deep was produced for Showtime by Corman's production company, Concorde-New Horizons, starring Robert Carradine and Emma Samms.

Kidnapped for Christ

Escuela Caribe was a boarding school for "troubled" teens near the mountain community of Jarabacoa in the Dominican Republic owned by Marion, Indiana-based New Horizons Youth Ministries, an evangelical organization.

Ofakim Hadashim

In 1965 Raffi Lavie founded a group called "10+", which sought an alternative to the "lyric abstraction" of the New Horizons group.

Paraguay–United States relations

In September 2009 Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo revoked plans for US troops to hold joint military exercises and development projects after stating that he no longer thinks that hosting troops taking part in the US department of defence’s "New Horizons" programme was worthwhile.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow

He comes back in Dance of the Hours and returns again for a final showdown in Bold New Horizons.

Tawan W. Davis

Davis serves as an Associate Minister at the Historic Kelly Temple Church of Harlem and as a member of the Boards of Directors of the Friends of Harlem Hospital, and the New Horizons Children's Advocacy Corporation.

Ultra Warrior

Some footage comes from other New Horizons films such as Lords of the Deep, Crimezone, Battletruck, Battle Beyond the Stars, Wheels of Fire and Dune Warriors.

Visual arts in Israel

This group, led by the artist Raffi Lavie, sought an alternative to the "lyric abstraction" of the New Horizons group.