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Destination · Asteroid
Vesta
Explore Vesta 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 Vesta
- Body type
- Asteroid
- Orbits
- Sun
- 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 Vesta
- Committed missions
- 1
- First launch
- Latest launch
- 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.
| Decade | Missions launched |
|---|---|
| 2000s |
Who went
Agencies
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 Vesta
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 Vesta key: these records are filed under asteroid alongside every other body of that kind. This page is where the catalog counts Vesta on its own.
View the 20 missions filed under asteroidThe explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed.
Draw the 1 mission with a committed trajectory