urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.new_horizons_kem1 1.1 1.18.0.0 Product_Context NH_KEM NH KEM1 New Horizons KEM 2024-04-19 1.1 Updated by SBN:Tilden Barnes during PDS migration of NH data archive to include the NH KEM1 mission overview document internal link, add asteroid number to Arrakoth in the investigation description, and update external reference description. 2023-01-05 1.0 Created by SBN:Tilden Barnes during PDS migration of NH data archive from original PDS3 mission catalog file: nh_kem.cat. urn:nasa:pds:nh_documents:mission:nhkem1_mission_overview investigation_to_document Overview document for the New Horizons Kuiper Extended Mission (KEM1). urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.nh investigation_to_instrument_host urn:nasa:pds:context:target:dust.dust investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:plasma_stream.solar_wind investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:trans-neptunian_object.486958_2014_mu69 investigation_to_target 10.1007/s11214-018-0507-4 Stern, S.A., H.A. Weaver, J.R. Spencer, H.A. Elliott, and the New Horizons Team, The New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission, Space Science Review, Volume 214, Issue 4, article id. 77, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-018-0507-4 Review paper summarizing the objectives and plans for the approved New Horizons mission extension, and briefly looks forward to potential objectives for subsequent extended missions. New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission Mission 2016-10-26 2022-09-30 The New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission is a mission to a recently discovered, unexplored region of the solar system, the Kuiper Belt. The centerpiece of the mission is a close flyby of Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) (486958) Arrokoth (2014 MU69). The mission will also aggressively survey the KB using NH as an observatory, examining many other Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs while studying the Kuiper Belt dust, gas, plasma, and energetic particle environments. Doing so will place both 2014 MU69 and the Pluto system in better context among Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), increasing scientific understanding of both.