Launched NASA's New Horizons spacecraft directly onto an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory toward Pluto, the first flight of the five-solid-booster Atlas V 551 configuration and, at the time, the fastest human-made object ever launched.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Solar Esc.
- Solar escape
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 19 January 2006, 19:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 2006-001
- Launches in 2006
- 1st of 66
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