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WorksheetsRocket Trivia Quizizz - New Horizons
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which celestial object was the main object of study for the New Horizons spacecraft?
Pluto
Mercury
486958 Arrokoth
Vesta
Which one of these organizations was a main designer and manufacturer of the New Horizons spacecraft?
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Ball Aerospace
Hughes Aircraft Company
Which variant of the Atlas V was used to launch the New Horizons probe to Pluto?
Atlas V 531
Atlas V 541
Atlas V 551
Atlas V 431
Which of these was the launch contractor for the New Horizons mission?
Northrup Grumman Innovation Systems
NASA
Eutelsat
International Launch Services
True or False: New Horizons holds the record for the fastest speed ever recorded for a spacecraft.
True
False
New Horizons is the _____ probe to reach the escape velocity of the Solar System.
6th
5th
4th
3rd
What radioactive isotope is used in the radioisotope thermoelectric generators on the New Horizons spacecraft?
Uranium-235
Lithium-6
Plutonium-238
Tritium-3
How many RCS thrusters are on the New Horizons spacecraft?
19
18
17
16
New Horizons' journey to Pluto included a gravity assist of which planet?
Jupiter
Venus
Earth
Saturn
The Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument on New Horizons has a resolution of:
0.5 arcseconds
1 arcsecond
0.5 arcminutes
1 arcminute
Which one of these people is the principal investigator for the New Horizons mission?
J. Hunter Waite
Michele Dougherty
Alan Stern
Don Williams
The SWAP instrument on New Horizons was designed to study what phenomenon?
Asteroid Composition
Ultraviolet Radiation
Gravitational Waves
Solar Wind
Which microwave radio frequency is used to communicate with the New Horizons spacecraft?
X-Band
S-Band
K-Band
Ka-Band
How many science instruments does New Horizons carry in total?
6
7
8
9
Which one of these Asteroid Belt objects did New Horizons encounter on its journey to Pluto?
1090 Sumida
118401 LINEAR
132524 APL
1927472 FSD
How many of the Galilean moons did New Horizons observe during its Jupiter flyby?
1
2
3
4
Approximately how far, in kilometers, was New Horizons from Pluto's surface during its closest approach?
12,472 km
13,283 km
14,028 km
15,733 km
The Alice instrument on New Horizons is a(n) ______ imaging spectrometer.
Alpha Particle
Ultraviolet
Radio
Infrared
Which one of these is closest to the dry mass, in kilograms, of the New Horizons probe?
200 kg
300 kg
400 kg
500 kg
The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC) was built by students from what university?
Purdue University
California Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Colorado - Boulder
