4179 Toutatis

Explore 4179 Toutatis and the missions that include it in their destination lists. A target in a mission plan does not mean the spacecraft has arrived.

Ephemeris committed

Body record

What the catalog records about 4179 Toutatis

Body type: Asteroid
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 4179 Toutatis

Committed missions: 1
First launch: October 1, 2010
Latest launch: October 1, 2010
Concluded missions: 1
Recorded a success: 1
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. 0 of the 1 record are still active, leaving 1 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 4179 Toutatis by launch decade.
Decade	Missions launched
2010s	1

Who went

Agencies

China National Space Administration: 1

A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 1.

What they did

Mission types

Flyby: 1
Orbiter: 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: 1
Partial success: 0
Failure: 0
Active: 0

Which ones

Every committed mission to 4179 Toutatis

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

Chang'e 2October 1, 2010Success

Keep going

These records in the directory

The directory's destination filter is a category taxonomy, and it has no 4179 Toutatis key: these records are filed under asteroid alongside every other body of that kind. This page is where the catalog counts 4179 Toutatis on its own.

View the 20 missions filed under asteroid

The explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed, and only where that dataset records an encounter with this body. A record above does carry one, but none of them encounters 4179 Toutatis, so the explorer has no 4179 Toutatis path to draw and this page offers no link to one.