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Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) Instrument

SWAP Instrument
The Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Mike Lynch of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Benjamin Rodriguez of the Southwest Research Institute re-install the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft Oct. 5 at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. SWAP, one of seven instruments on the Pluto-bound New Horizons probe, had been removed for previously planned maintenance and installation of new detectors. Visible above SWAP is the Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) instrument; to the right are the telescopic Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and, with protective red covers, the spacecraft’s star-tracking navigation cameras.

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute