# What do all these vectors point to in this New Horizons trajectory/operations simulation?

Sir Brian May's New Horizons music video (below) shows an animation of the spacecraft and its launch vehicle from countdown to MU69 Ultima Thule.

Part way through the video at about 02:30 and again at 03:20 (better view) it appears to switch to some technical, engineering like simulation (screen shots shown below) showing the choreography during the flyby of pluto.

What do all of these color vectors point to?

"Bonus points" for identifying or at least describing the software used to generate this segment.

Note, check the video or these full-size screen shots for more clues 1, 2, 3

video cued at 02:30; lower your volume first, there is loud music at this point

• I see, this is quite helpful! +1 You have better eyes than I do. I don't understand what those two orbit normal vectors are though. Would the first one (wrt Pluto) be the normal to the plane that contains Pluto and the spacecraft's instantaneous velocity vector? For the second one I can't even venture a guess what it means, is it possible to explain in simpler terms? Thanks! – uhoh Sep 9 '19 at 8:00