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Snapshot 2026-09-06
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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
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 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 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 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
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 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 2014
Active missionJAXA's Hayabusa2 arrived at Ryugu in 2018, delivered a sample capsule to Earth in 2020, and continued its Extended Mission after a Torifune flyby; 1998 KY26 is its new target destination.
Launched 2014
Lost · Partial SuccessUniversity of Tokyo and JAXA's PROCYON demonstrated a micro-spacecraft bus system for deep-space exploration and selected 2000 DP107 as its asteroid flyby target.
Launched 2010
Completed · SuccessChina's second lunar orbiter, which mapped the Moon at higher resolution before leaving it to fly past the asteroid Toutatis.
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 2004
Completed · SuccessESA's Rosetta was the first mission to rendezvous with a comet, the first to follow one around the Sun, and the first to deploy a lander to a comet's surface. Launched 2 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 G+ from Kourou, it used three Earth gravity assists and one Mars gravity assist, flew past asteroids Steins and Lutetia, hibernated for 31 months, and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. It released the Philae lander on 12 November 2014 and ended with a controlled descent onto the comet on 30 September 2016.
Launched 2003
Completed · SuccessJAXA's Hayabusa, formerly Muses-C, was a sample-return mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa that returned a re-entry capsule to Earth in 2010.
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
Completed · SuccessNASA's first New Millennium Program technology-demonstration probe flew past asteroid 9969 Braille in 1999 and comet Borrelly in 2001.
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 1994
Completed · Partial SuccessA joint Defense Department and NASA mission that mapped the Moon in eleven wavelengths before a malfunction ended its planned encounter with asteroid 1620 Geographos.
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.