New Horizons is a satellite launched by NASA. It was expected to reach Pluto and fly of, but a minor TNO, only 1.5 m across, impacted the spacecraft so it is dysfunctioning
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The satellite fly by Jupiter and incidentally 132524APL, and it is the first spacecraft to reach a TNO and Pluto. It corrected data from Kepler Space Telescope(radius, etc) and discovered some moons of Pluto.
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