NASA's New Horizons To look for Planet X


NASA's New Horizons 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 (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958 Arrokoth. It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System.

So New Horizons has explored Pluto, Kuiper belt objects, and 486958 Arrokoth, could New Horizons hunt for Planet X?

If NASA approves the funding, the New Horizons probe will hunt for the mysterious Planet X beyond Pluto in Kuiper Belt. Long back in a research paper in Nature in 2014, Sheppard and Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii said that a massive outer Solar System perturber may exist. 

NASA's New Horizons may be in the trajectory of Planet X, if it exists, New Horizons may make a Flyby or reenter its atmosphere and burn up.

If Planet X exist and New Horizons makes a Flyby, the probe would most likely be burned out of its fuel supplies, plus, New Horizons has enough fuel to last unitl 2030, and Planet X is 20 times farther from the Sun on average than Neptune, meaning New Horizons would have ran out of fuel if it arrives at Planet X.

So now we can only dream about Humans sending something to Planet X, but what about other probes?

There are 5 space probes that are leaving the Solar System; or orbiting the galaxy, NASA's Pioneer 11, Pioneer 10, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons are the only space probes that is leaving the Solar System. So, these probes may encounter Planet X if it exists, but New Horizons is the only space probe that we have an estimate of encountering Planet X.

There's really not much to do to send a probe to Planet X, we're not sure if it even exists, plus Planet X is extremely far, meaning that Humans will most likely not make a mission for it, but if a spacecraft encounters' it, we will 100% study it (If it still has enough fuel).

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