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Arrokoth

Explore Arrokoth and the missions that include it in their destination lists. A target in a mission plan does not mean the spacecraft has arrived.

Ephemeris committed

Body record

What the catalog records about Arrokoth

Body type
Other
Orbits
Sun
Position in the explorer
Computed from a committed ephemeris

Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.

Derived figures

Missions to Arrokoth

Committed missions
1
First launch
Latest launch
Concluded missions
0
Recorded a success
0

Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 1 of the 1 record is still active, leaving 0 concluded. No success rate is stated, because none of them has concluded.

Committed missions to Arrokoth by launch decade.
DecadeMissions launched
2000s1

Who went

Agencies

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
1
NASA
1

A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 1.

What they did

Mission types

Flyby
1

A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.

How they ended

Outcomes

Success
0
Partial success
0
Failure
0
Active
1

Which ones

Every committed mission to Arrokoth

Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.

  1. New HorizonsActive

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These records in the directory

The directory's destination filter is a category taxonomy, and it has no Arrokoth key: these records are filed under other alongside every other body of that kind. This page is where the catalog counts Arrokoth on its own.

View the 23 missions filed under other

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Draw the 1 mission with a committed trajectory