-Ralph (visible and infrared imager/spectrometer; provides color, composition and thermal maps)

-Alice (ultraviolet imaging spectrometer; analyzes composition and structure of Pluto’s atmosphere and looks for the atmospheres around Charon and Kuiper Belt Objects

-REX (Radio Science EXperiment) measures atmospheric composition and temperature

-LORRI (Long range Reconnaissance Imager; telescopic camera)

-SWAP (Solar Wind Around Pluto; solar wind and plasma spectrometer)

-PEPSSI (Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation; measuring the composition and density of plasma escaping from Pluto’s atmosphere)

-SDC (Student Dust Counter; measures the space dust peppering New Horizons during its voyage across the solar system)

- Make the first close-up study of Pluto and its moon and other icy worlds in the distant Kuiper Belt. Flyby one or more Kuiper Belt Objects

Main Objective:

-Characterize the global geology and morphology and map the surface composition of Pluto and Charon and characterize the neutral atmosphere of Pluto and its escape rate.

Other objectives:

-Study the time variability of Pluto's surface and atmosphere

-Image Pluto and Charon in stereo

-Map the terminators and composition of selected areas of Pluto and Charon at high-resolution

-Characterizing Pluto's upper atmosphere, ionosphere, energetic particle environment, and solar wind interaction

-Searching for an atmosphere around Charon and characterizing its energetic particle environment

-Refine bulk parameters, orbits, and bolometric Bond albedos of Pluto and Charon-Searching for additional satellites and rings

-Characterizing one or more Kuiper Belt Objects.