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The New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft was injected into a faster trajectory than any previous spacecraft launched from Earth. With an additional gravitational assist from a flyby of Jupiter in early 2007, New Horizons will reach Pluto in July 2015. From there the craft will continue to journey in the outer solar system to investigate one or more of the recently discovered Kuiper Belt objects. Considering the rate of recent discoveries, New Horizons may have a lengthening choice of targets to explore.
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