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Mercury

Every figure on this page is counted from the committed mission records that name Mercury as a destination. None of them is maintained by hand.

Ephemeris committed

Body record

What the catalog records about Mercury

Body type
Planet
Orbits
Sun
Mean radius
2,440 km
Mean distance from the Sun
58,000,000 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 Mercury

Committed missions
3
First launch
Latest launch
Concluded missions
2
Recorded a success
2
Success rate
100%

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. 1 of the 3 records is still active, leaving 2 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.

Committed missions to Mercury by launch decade.
DecadeMissions launched
1970s1
1980s0
1990s0
2000s1
2010s1

Who went

Agencies

ESA
1
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
1
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
1
NASA
1
NASA-Office of Space Science Applications
1

A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 3.

What they did

Mission types

Flyby
3
Orbiter
2

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
2
Partial success
0
Failure
0
Active
1

Which ones

Every committed mission to Mercury

Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.

  1. Mariner 10Success
  2. MESSENGERSuccess
  3. BepiColomboActive

Keep going

These records in the directory

The directory's Mercury destination filter selects exactly the records counted above.

View all 3 Mercury missions

The explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed.

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