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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.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Jupiter · Mars
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
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.
- Agency
- ESA · NASA · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency · Israel Space Agency
- Destination
- Moon · Earth · Venus · Jupiter
- Trajectory
- Precise trajectory
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.
- Agency
- NASA · ASI
- Destination
- Jupiter · Earth
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
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.
- Agency
- NASA · Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Destination
- Jupiter · Pluto · Arrokoth
- Trajectory
- Precise trajectory
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.
- Agency
- NASA · ESA · ASI
- Destination
- Saturn · Titan · Venus · Earth · Jupiter
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Orbiter
- Lander
- Atmospheric Probe
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.
- Agency
- ESA · NASA
- Destination
- Jupiter
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
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.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Jupiter · Venus · Earth · Moon · 951 Gaspra · 243 Ida
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Orbiter
- Atmospheric Probe
- Flyby
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.
- Agency
- NASA · JPL
- Destination
- Jupiter · Saturn · Titan
- Trajectory
- Precise trajectory
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.
- Agency
- NASA · JPL
- Destination
- Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune
- Trajectory
- Precise trajectory
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.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Jupiter · Saturn
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
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.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Jupiter
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable