Destination · Planet
Earth
Every figure on this page is counted from the committed mission records that name Earth as a destination. None of them is maintained by hand.
Ephemeris committed
Body record
What the catalog records about Earth
- Body type
- Planet
- Orbits
- Sun
- Mean radius
- 6,378 km
- Mean distance from the Sun
- 149,700,000 km
- Position in the explorer
- Computed from a committed ephemeris
Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.
Derived figures
Missions to Earth
- Committed missions
- 14
- First launch
- Latest launch
- Concluded missions
- 6
- Recorded a success
- 5
- Success rate
- 83%
Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 8 of the 14 records are still active, leaving 6 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.
| Decade | Missions launched |
|---|---|
| 1980s | |
| 1990s | |
| 2000s | |
| 2010s | |
| 2020s |
Who went
Agencies
A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 14.
What they did
Mission types
- Orbiter
- 9
- Flyby
- 8
- Sample return
- 4
- Lander
- 3
- Atmospheric probe
- 2
- Observatory
- 1
A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.
How they ended
Outcomes
- Success
- 5
- Partial success
- 0
- Failure
- 1
- Active
- 8
Which ones
Every committed mission to Earth
Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.
Keep going
These records in the directory
The directory's destination filter is a category taxonomy, and it has no Earth key: these records are filed under other alongside every other body of that kind. This page is where the catalog counts Earth on its own.
View the 17 missions filed under otherThe explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed.
Draw the 2 missions with a committed trajectory