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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 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 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 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
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 · 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 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
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
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 missionThe active ESA-NASA Solar Orbiter uses 10 science instruments to observe the Sun, solar wind, and the Sun's polar regions.
Launched 2018
Active missionNASA's active Parker Solar Probe flies through the Sun's corona to provide unprecedented observations.
Launched 2016
Active missionNASA's first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and return it to Earth. Launched 8 September 2016 on an Atlas V 411, OSIRIS-REx arrived at near-Earth asteroid Bennu on 3 December 2018, entered orbit on 31 December 2018, collected regolith at the Nightingale site during a Touch-And-Go event on 20 October 2020, departed Bennu on 10 May 2021, and delivered its sample return capsule to the Utah Test and Training Range on 24 September 2023. The capsule held 121.6 grams of Bennu material. The spacecraft itself did not land; it was renamed OSIRIS-APEX and redirected to asteroid Apophis.
Launched 2015
Active missionDSCOVR is an active joint NASA, NOAA, and USAF space weather station at Lagrange point 1 that monitors the solar wind for geomagnetic-storm warnings.
Launched 2011
Active missionNASA New Frontiers orbiter studying Jupiter from a highly elliptical near-polar orbit since July 2016, measuring the planet's gravity and magnetic fields, deep-atmosphere water and ammonia, and its polar magnetosphere and aurorae; in its extended mission it has also made close passes of Ganymede, Europa, Io and the inner moon Thebe.
Launched 2009
Active missionNASA robotic lunar polar orbiter launched on 18 June 2009 that maps the Moon's surface topography, temperature, composition and radiation environment, with emphasis on the polar regions and on identifying safe landing sites and resources such as water ice. Still operating in 2026, it is described by NASA as the longest-lived lunar orbiting mission ever.
Launched 2009
Completed · SuccessNASA's Kepler was designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way from heliocentric orbit.
Launched 2007
Completed · SuccessNASA's Dawn orbited asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres after a Mars gravity assist, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial destinations. Launched in 2007, it completed its successful mission in 2018 after exhausting its hydrazine.
Launched 2006
Active missionNASA's active STEREO mission uses the STEREO-A and STEREO-B spacecraft to study the Sun, solar wind, and space weather from multiple viewpoints.
Launched 2006
Active missionNASA's active New Horizons mission performed the first close exploration of Pluto and later flew past Arrokoth, the most distant object explored up close.
Launched 2005
Completed · SuccessNASA's Deep Impact delivered a special impactor into the path of Tempel 1. Deep Impact was redirected toward Comet 103P/Hartley (Hartley 2).
Launched 2004
Completed · SuccessNASA Discovery-class orbiter, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, that became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. After one Earth, two Venus and three Mercury gravity-assist flybys it entered Mercury orbit on 18 March 2011 UTC, characterised the planet's surface composition, geological history, magnetic field and exosphere, verified water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters, and ended by impacting Mercury on 30 April 2015 after exhausting its propellant.
Launched 2003
Completed · SuccessNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was designed to detect infrared radiation from a heliocentric, Earth-trailing orbit around the Sun.
Launched 2002
Failed · FailureNASA's CONTOUR was built to study and compare the interiors of two to three comets. Contact with the spacecraft was lost after an engine burn.
Launched 2001
Completed · Partial SuccessNASA's Genesis spacecraft collected solar-wind samples at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point and returned the sample canister to Earth; despite a hard landing, samples were recovered.
Launched 2001
Completed · SuccessNASA's WMAP measured the cosmic microwave background radiation over the full sky from the Sun-Earth L2 libration point.
Launched 1999
Completed · SuccessNASA's Stardust returned samples from comet P/Wild 2, flew past asteroid 5535 Annefrank, and later revisited Comet Tempel 1 as Stardust/NExT.
Launched 1998
Lost · FailureNASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was to be the first interplanetary weather satellite at Mars and a communications relay for the Mars Polar Lander. Launched 11 December 1998 on a Delta II from Cape Canaveral, it was lost on 23 September 1999 during the Mars Orbit Insertion burn. The Mishap Investigation Board found the root cause was the failure to use metric units in a ground software file, "Small Forces", used in trajectory models: thruster impulse data was delivered in pound-seconds instead of the specified newton-seconds, low by a factor of 4.45, driving the spacecraft roughly 170 km lower than planned at Mars arrival.
Launched 1998
Completed · SuccessNASA's first New Millennium Program technology-demonstration probe flew past asteroid 9969 Braille in 1999 and comet Borrelly in 2001.
Launched 1997
Completed · SuccessThe joint NASA, ESA, and ASI mission placed Cassini in orbit around Saturn and delivered ESA's Huygens probe to the surface of Titan. Unable to be launched directly to Saturn with the propulsion systems available at the time, it flew what NSSDCA calls a VVEJGA (Venus-Venus-Earth-Jupiter Gravity Assist) trajectory, making two flybys of Venus, one of the Earth and one of Jupiter on the way.
Launched 1997
Active missionNASA's active Advanced Composition Explorer studies solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic energetic particles from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
Launched 1996
Completed · SuccessNASA's NEAR Shoemaker flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde in 1997, entered orbit around 433 Eros in 2000, and completed the first touchdown on an asteroid in 2001.
Launched 1995
Active missionThe active joint ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory studies the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
Launched 1994
Active missionNASA's active Wind spacecraft is in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, observing the solar wind before it impacts Earth's magnetosphere.
Launched 1990
Completed · SuccessJoint ESA-NASA mission, launched from the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Discovery and swung out of the ecliptic by a Jupiter swingby in February 1992, which investigated the solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field as a function of solar latitude and provided the first-ever map of the heliosphere from the equator to the poles; the mission ended with the loss of contact on 30 June 2009.
Launched 1989
Completed · SuccessNASA mission, with participation by the Federal Republic of Germany, comprising a Jupiter orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe deployed from Space Shuttle Atlantis in October 1989. Flying a Venus-Earth-Earth gravity-assist trajectory, it made the first close flybys of asteroids (951 Gaspra and 243 Ida), observed the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter, delivered the first probe into a giant planet's atmosphere on 7 December 1995, and orbited Jupiter until it was deliberately steered into the planet on 21 September 2003 to avoid contaminating Europa.
Launched 1989
Completed · SuccessNASA's Magellan orbiter mapped Venus with synthetic aperture radar from 1990 to 1994. Deployed from Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-30R, it entered Venus orbit on 10 August 1990, imaged about 98 percent of the surface over three 243-day mapping cycles, then collected a global gravity field, performed the first planetary aerobraking demonstration, and was deliberately flown into the Venusian atmosphere; radio contact was lost on 12 October 1994.
Launched 1977
Active missionNASA's Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and Saturn before becoming the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, where its extended mission continues.
Launched 1977
Active missionNASA's Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited all four giant planets at close range and now continues its extended mission in interstellar space.
Launched 1976
Completed · Partial SuccessHelios 2 was the second spacecraft launched to investigate solar processes as part of a cooperative project between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Like its twin, the spacecraft was put into heliocentric orbit.
Launched 1974
Completed · SuccessHelios 1 was a joint German-American deep-space mission to study the main solar processes and solar-terrestrial relationships. Its instruments were designed to investigate phenomena in regions between Earth's orbit and approximately 0.3 AU from the Sun.
Launched 1973
Completed · SuccessNASA's Pioneer 11 was the first spacecraft to fly past Saturn, reaching it after a Jupiter gravity assist, and left the Solar System on an escape trajectory.
Launched 1972
Completed · SuccessNASA's Apollo 17 was a crewed mission to the Moon: the final Apollo landing, in the Taurus-Littrow valley, with the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Launched 1972
Completed · SuccessNASA's Apollo 16 was a crewed mission to the Moon: a landing in the Descartes highlands with the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Launched 1972
Completed · SuccessNASA's Pioneer 10 was the first mission to be sent to the outer solar system and the first to investigate the planet Jupiter, reaching approximately 2.8 Jovian radii from the planet on 04 December 1973 and then following an escape trajectory from the solar system; its signal was last detected on 23 January 2003.
Launched 1971
Completed · SuccessNASA's Apollo 15 was a crewed mission to the Moon: the first mission to carry the Lunar Roving Vehicle, landing in the Mare Imbrium region at the foot of the Apennines.
Launched 1971
Completed · SuccessNASA's Apollo 14 was a crewed mission to the Moon: the third crewed landing, in the Fra Mauro highlands.
Launched 1970
Partial Success · Partial SuccessNASA's Apollo 13 was a crewed mission to the Moon: the landing abandoned after an oxygen tank ruptured, with the crew returning safely using the Lunar Module as a lifeboat.
Launched 1969
Completed · SuccessNASA's Apollo 12 was a crewed mission to the Moon: the second crewed landing, which touched down near the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in Oceanus Procellarum.
Launched 1969
Completed · SuccessFirst crewed lunar landing. Apollo 11 launched on a Saturn V from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on 16 July 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module Eagle in Mare Tranquilitatis on 20 July 1969 while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit aboard the Command and Service Module Columbia. The crew deployed the EASEP surface experiment package, collected 21.55 kg of lunar rock and soil, and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on 24 July 1969.
Launched 1969
Completed · SuccessNASA's Apollo 10 was a crewed mission to the Moon: the dress rehearsal for the first landing, taking the Lunar Module to within 15 km of the surface without landing.
Launched 1968
Completed · SuccessFirst Apollo spacecraft to successfully orbit the Moon and the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravity, carrying Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr. and William A. Anders through ten lunar orbits, six live television transmissions and a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
Launched 1968
Completed · SuccessPioneer 9 was the fourth in a series of five NASA probes designed to collect data on electromagnetic and plasma properties of interplanetary space from widely separated points in heliocentric orbit.
Launched 1968
Completed · SuccessThe fifth and final Surveyor to achieve a lunar soft landing, and the only one to land in the lunar highlands, on an ejecta blanket north of the rim of Tycho crater.
Launched 1967
Completed · SuccessNASA's Pioneer 8 was launched to heliocentric orbit to study interplanetary space. It sent back data for nearly 30 years.
Launched 1967
Completed · SuccessThe fourth Surveyor to land successfully; a firing of its vernier engines on the surface produced the first powered takeoff from the Moon, hopping the lander about 2.4 meters west of its original position.
Launched 1967
Completed · SuccessThe third Surveyor to land successfully and the first mission to obtain in-situ compositional data on the Moon, analyzing soil in Mare Tranquillitatis with an alpha-scattering instrument.
Launched 1967
Completed · SuccessThe last of the NASA Lunar Orbiter series, designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moon's far side. It returned 633 high resolution and 211 medium resolution frames, bringing cumulative Lunar Orbiter coverage to 99% of the Moon's surface, and was commanded to impact the Moon on 31 January 1968.