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Snapshot 2026-09-06
Launched 2026
Active missionNASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is undergoing commissioning on its three-month journey from Earth to Sun-Earth L2 for dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics.
Launched 2026
Completed · SuccessNASA's Artemis II was a crewed lunar flyby around the Moon and back to Earth with four astronauts in April 2026.
Launched 2025
Active missionThe Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) are a dual-spacecraft mission to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars. EscaPADE is part of the NASA Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. Each identical spacecraft, named "Blue" and "Gold", has a dry mass of 209 kg and a fully fueled mass of 535 kg. It launched on Nov. 13, 2025 into a loiter orbit around Earth's Lagrange point 2 and will use Earth's gravity in the fall of 2026 to slingshot toward Mars; NASA's mission page, fetched on 2026-09-02, lists it as an Active Mission.
Launched 2025
Active missionNASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth's exosphere from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
Launched 2025
Active missionNASA's active IMAP maps the heliosphere's boundaries and studies solar-wind interaction with interstellar space.
Launched 2025
Active missionNOAA's active SOLAR-1 continuously monitors the Sun and solar wind from L1 for operational space-weather observations.
Launched 2025
Active missionChina's active Tianwen-2 mission launched on 29 May 2025 from Xichang on a Long March 3B Y110. It has begun scientific exploration of asteroid 2016 HO3; the mission plans to return an asteroid sample to Earth before continuing to main-belt comet 311P.
Launched 2025
Failed · FailureA NASA smallsat that was to map water on the Moon from polar orbit, lost when contact failed hours after launch.
Launched 2025
Completed · Partial SuccessIntuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, Athena, touched down inside a crater near Mons Mouton, collected some NASA data, and ended its mission early.
Launched 2025
Lost · FailureAstroForge's Odin was an asteroid-imaging mission that launched as an IM-2 secondary payload, made it past the Moon into deep space, and was lost in 2025.
Launched 2025
Completed · SuccessFirefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9, landed successfully on the Moon, and concluded its mission in March 2025.
Launched 2025
Failed · Failureispace's RESILIENCE lander reached lunar orbit before a hard landing on the Moon; ispace decided to conclude HAKUTO-R Mission 2.
Launched 2024
Active missionNASA mission launched on 14 October 2024 and designed to go into an orbit around Jupiter that will allow multiple close flybys of its moon Europa, to determine whether Europa has conditions suitable to support life. It is taking a Mars Earth Gravity Assist trajectory whose Mars assist was flown on 1 March 2025; NASA's mission page calls it an Active Mission and gives an arrival at Jupiter in April 2030, after which it is to conduct 49 close flybys of Europa; NSSDCA's page adds that it will also fly by Ganymede and Callisto as part of its orbit-shaping maneuvers.
Launched 2024
Active missionESA's Hera lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 7 October 2024. It is on course for its rendezvous with the Didymos binary asteroid system, whose smaller body is Dimorphos.
Launched 2024
Completed · SuccessChina's Chang'e 6 returned the first samples from the lunar far side after landing in the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
Launched 2024
Completed · SuccessChang'e-6 launched with four international payloads including Pakistan's ICUBE-Q CubeSat; it separated from the orbiter on May 8 and was successfully deployed in lunar orbit. China delivered CubeSat data to Pakistan on May 10.
Launched 2024
Active missionChina's Queqiao 2 relay satellite entered its target highly elliptical orbit around the Moon and supported Chang'e 6's far-side landing.
Launched 2024
Active missionChina's Tiandu-1 communication and navigation technology test satellite entered lunar orbit and completed a 3:1 Earth-Moon resonant-orbit maneuver.
Launched 2024
Completed · SuccessChina's Tiandu-2 communication and navigation technology test satellite entered lunar orbit and successfully carried out Earth-Moon transmission and routing experiments.
Launched 2024
Active missionChina's DRO-A satellite ultimately reached its designated distant retrograde orbit in Earth-Moon space after a launch upper-stage anomaly and established an inter-satellite link with DRO-L.
Launched 2024
Active missionChina's DRO-B satellite ultimately reached its designated orbit in Earth-Moon space after a launch upper-stage anomaly and now operates in Earth-Moon space maneuver orbits.
Launched 2024
Completed · SuccessIntuitive Machines' Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, softly landed near Malapert A in the South Pole region of the Moon.
Launched 2024
Failed · FailureAstrobotic's Peregrine Mission One launched on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan rocket, but a propulsion issue prevented Peregrine from softly landing on the Moon and the lander made a controlled re-entry over open water in the South Pacific.
Launched 2023
Active missionNASA's Psyche mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center on 13 October 2023 to study the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt. Its cruise included a Mars gravity assist on 15 May 2026, and NASA says it will arrive at Psyche in August 2029.
Launched 2023
Completed · Partial SuccessA Japanese pinpoint-landing demonstration that touched down close to its target but came to rest with its solar panels facing the wrong way.
Launched 2023
Active missionAditya-L1 is an operational Indian solar observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point.
Launched 2023
Failed · FailureRussia's first lunar mission since 1976, targeted at the south polar region and lost when communications ceased days after launch.
Launched 2023
Completed · SuccessIndia's successful lunar landing, which set the Vikram lander down in the south polar region and deployed a rover onto the surface.
Launched 2023
Active missionESA's Euclid mission explores the composition and evolution of the dark Universe from Sun-Earth L2.
Launched 2023
Active missionESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, launched on 14 April 2023 on an Ariane 5 from Kourou and still in interplanetary cruise. Its targets are Jupiter and the ocean-bearing Galilean moons Ganymede, Europa and Callisto, due to be reached in July 2031. It has flown what ESA calls a world-first lunar-Earth gravity assist on 19-20 August 2024, passing the Moon and then Earth a day apart, and a Venus gravity assist on 31 August 2025; two further Earth gravity assists, planned for 2026 and 2029, have not happened. This atlas has no body record for Ganymede, Europa or Callisto, so those three are absent from the destinations listed here.
Launched 2022
Failed · FailureA commercial Japanese technology demonstration lander, built by ispace, that reached lunar orbit but was lost during its descent to the surface.
Launched 2022
Failed · FailureA NASA CubeSat intended to look for surface ice in permanently shadowed lunar craters, ended early by problems with its thrusters.
Launched 2022
Completed · SuccessThe Italian Space Agency's ArgoMoon CubeSat photographed Earth and the Moon after its Artemis I deployment.
Launched 2022
Completed · SuccessThe uncrewed first flight of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, sent around the Moon and back to test the systems for a later crewed launch.
Launched 2022
Lost · Partial SuccessJAXA's EQUULEUS CubeSat was launched by NASA's Artemis I, completed its planned lunar fly-by, and was confirmed in its planned orbit toward the Earth-Moon L2 point.
Launched 2022
Partial Success · Partial SuccessA CubeSat that flew past the Moon after the Artemis I launch but could not reach the low polar orbit from which it was to map water ice.
Launched 2022
Failed · FailureA NASA CubeSat launched as an Artemis I secondary payload to investigate lunar ice, but no communication could be established after launch.
Launched 2022
Failed · FailureLockheed Martin's LunIR CubeSat could not complete its lunar infrared-imaging technology demonstration after the Artemis I launch.
Launched 2022
Lost · FailureNASA's NEA Scout was a CubeSat launched as a secondary payload on Artemis I to study and photograph asteroid 2020 GE. Communication was never established after deployment, and NASA's Planetary Data System considers it lost.
Launched 2022
Failed · FailureJAXA's OMOTENASHI CubeSat could not perform its lunar landing maneuver after JAXA was unable to establish communication.
Launched 2022
Active missionSouth Korea's first mission beyond Earth orbit, a lunar polar orbiter also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter.
Launched 2022
Active missionA 25 kg spacecraft sent to fly and prove the near-rectilinear halo orbit intended for a future crewed lunar outpost.
Launched 2021
Active missionNASA, ESA, and CSA's active Webb observatory studies every phase in the history of our Universe from Sun-Earth L2.
Launched 2021
Completed · SuccessNASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. On Sept. 26, 2022, it impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits the larger asteroid Didymos.
Launched 2021
Completed · SuccessLICIACube was a small spacecraft contributed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) that split from DART before its impact with Dimorphos. It captured images of the impact and ejecta, and ASI reported that it successfully accomplished its goals.
Launched 2021
Active missionNASA's active Lucy spacecraft completed two Earth gravity assists and flybys of Dinkinesh and Donaldjohanson after its 2021 launch; it continues toward eight Jupiter Trojan asteroids, including several satellite targets.
Launched 2020
Completed · SuccessChina's first lunar sample return: a lander that drilled and scooped regolith in Oceanus Procellarum and delivered 1.731 kg of it to Earth.
Launched 2020
Active missionNASA's active Mars 2020 mission operates the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater, searching for signs of ancient microbial life and caching rock and regolith samples.
Launched 2020
Active missionTianwen 1 (formerly Huoxing 1) is a Chinese Mars mission comprising a lander/rover and orbiter that launched on 23 July 2020 and reaches Mars in February 2021. The scientific objectives of the mission are to study martian topography and geology, characterize the soil and its water-ice content, determine the composition of the surface material, profile the martian ionosphere, climate, and environment, and constrain the gravity and magnetic fields and the interior structure. The lander and the Zhurong rover separated from the orbiter and made a landing in the Utopia Planitia region on 14 May 2021. No page fetched for this record states the mission's state later than the August 2025 capture it cites.
Launched 2020
Active missionThe Emirates Mars Mission, or "Hope" (Al-Amal) Mars orbiter mission launched from Tanegashima Space Center at 21:58:14 UT on 19 July 2020. Built by the United Arab Emirates, the mission will orbit Mars and study the dynamics of the martian atmosphere and its interaction with outer space and the solar wind. It entered an elliptical, roughly 22000 x 44000 km orbit on 9 February 2021. Two years of science operations are planned, beginning in May 2021, with a possibility of a two-year extension to do more science into 2025, and no page fetched for this record states whether operations have ended.
Launched 2020
Active missionThe active ESA-NASA Solar Orbiter uses 10 science instruments to observe the Sun, solar wind, and the Sun's polar regions.
Launched 2019
Active missionIndia's second lunar mission, whose orbiter continues to operate after the Vikram lander was lost during its descent.
Launched 2019
Active missionSpektr-RG is an X-ray observatory studying the Universe from a halo orbit around Sun-Earth L2.
Launched 2019
Failed · FailureA privately funded Israeli lander that reached lunar orbit before crashing during its descent to the surface.
Launched 2018
Active missionThe first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, which delivered the Yutu-2 rover into Von Karman crater.
Launched 2018
Active missionJoint ESA and JAXA mission to Mercury, launched on 20 October 2018 as a stack of ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter, JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio), Mio's sunshield and interface structure, and ESA's Mercury Transfer Module. Its cruise made one Earth flyby, two Venus flybys and six Mercury flybys between April 2020 and January 2025 on solar electric propulsion, which ESA switched off for the last time on 15 June 2026. ESA's mission page, read on 2 September 2026, gave the status as in operation and en route to Mercury. Its countries are the contractor countries ESA's An international endeavour page names, plus Japan for JAXA; not an ESA member-state contribution map.
Launched 2018
Active missionNASA's active Parker Solar Probe flies through the Sun's corona to provide unprecedented observations.
Launched 2018
Failed · FailureA lunar microsatellite launched with Queqiao for low-frequency radio astronomy, but lost during its first trajectory correction maneuver because of a thruster-control logic malfunction.
Launched 2018
Completed · SuccessA Chinese microsatellite that reached lunar orbit for low-frequency radio astronomy and returned images of the Earth beyond the Moon.
Launched 2018
Active missionA Chinese relay satellite placed in a halo orbit beyond the Moon so that a lander on the far side could keep in contact with Earth.