New Horizons was sent to record data on Mars.
Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory -LRB- APL -RRB- and the Southwest Research Institute -LRB- SwRI -RRB- , with a team led by S. Alan Stern , the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015 , and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects -LRB- KBOs -RRB- in the decade to follow .	Pluto	Pluto	APL	Applied Physics Laboratory	SwRI	Southwest Research Institute	Johns Hopkins University	Johns Hopkins University	Applied Physics Laboratory	Applied Physics Laboratory	Southwest Research Institute	Southwest Research Institute	S. Alan Stern	Alan Stern	flyby	Planetary flyby	Kuiper belt	Kuiper belt
