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Snapshot 2026-09-06
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Open the explorerNot carried: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
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 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
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
Failed · FailureJAXA's OMOTENASHI CubeSat could not perform its lunar landing maneuver after JAXA was unable to establish communication.
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 2010
Completed · SuccessA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency mission designed to study the dynamics of the atmosphere of Venus from orbit, particularly the upper atmosphere super-rotation and the three-dimensional motion in the lower part of the atmosphere, using multi-wavelength imaging. Its first orbit insertion failed on 7 December 2010, when JAXA reports the main engine for orbit control was broken and the spacecraft flew by the planet instead; a second attempt on 7 December 2015 succeeded, and JAXA reports it then observed the atmosphere of Venus for more than eight years. Communication was lost near the end of April 2024 and JAXA terminated operations on 18 September 2025.
Launched 2007
Completed · SuccessA Japanese lunar orbiter that mapped the Moon's topography and gravity, accompanied by two small relay and radio-science subsatellites.