Launched 2025
Active missionCarruthers Geocorona Observatory
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth's exosphere from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Earth
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Observatory
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Launched 2025
Active missionTianwen-2
China'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.
- Agency
- China National Space Administration
- Destination
- 2016 HO3 · Earth · 311P
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Sample Return
Launched 2023
Active missionJuice
ESA'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
- Orbiter
- Flyby
Launched 2021
Active missionLucy
NASA'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.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Earth · Dinkinesh · Selam · Donaldjohanson · Eurybates · Queta · Polymele · Polymele's unnamed satellite · Leucus · Orus · Patroclus · Menoetius
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Flyby
Launched 2018
Active missionBepiColombo
Joint 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.
- Agency
- ESA · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Destination
- Mercury · Venus · Earth
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Orbiter
- Flyby
Launched 2016
Active missionOSIRIS-REx
NASA'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.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Bennu · Earth
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Sample Return
- Orbiter
Launched 2014
Active missionHayabusa2
JAXA'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.
- Agency
- JAXA
- Destination
- Ryugu · Earth · 2001 CC21 Torifune · 1998 KY26
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Sample Return
- Flyby
Launched 2011
Active missionJuno
NASA 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
- Orbiter
Launched 2007
Completed · SuccessDawn
NASA'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.
- Agency
- NASA · JPL
- Destination
- Vesta · Ceres · Mars
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Orbiter
- Flyby
Launched 2006
Active missionNew Horizons
NASA'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
- Flyby
Launched 2004
Completed · SuccessMESSENGER
NASA 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.
- Agency
- NASA · Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Destination
- Mercury · Venus · Earth
- Trajectory
- Precise trajectory
- Orbiter
- Flyby
Launched 2004
Completed · SuccessRosetta
ESA'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.
- Agency
- ESA · DLR · CNES
- Destination
- 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko · Earth · Mars · 2867 Steins · 21 Lutetia
- Trajectory
- Precise trajectory
- Orbiter
- Lander
- Flyby
Launched 2003
Completed · SuccessHayabusa
JAXA's Hayabusa, formerly Muses-C, was a sample-return mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa that returned a re-entry capsule to Earth in 2010.
- Agency
- JAXA
- Destination
- 25143 Itokawa · Earth
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Sample Return
- Lander
Launched 1998
Failed · FailureNozomi
Nozomi (Japanese for Hope and known before launch as Planet-B) was planned as a Mars orbiting aeronomy mission designed to study the martian upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind and to develop technologies for use in future planetary missions. A malfunctioning valve during an Earth swingby resulted in a loss of fuel and left the spacecraft with insufficient acceleration to reach its planned trajectory, and solar flares later damaged its communications and power systems. Efforts to put the Nozomi spacecraft into martian orbit have been abandoned: an attempt to fire thrusters to orient the craft for a Mars orbit insertion burn failed on December 9, the smaller thrusters were successfully fired, and Nozomi flew past Mars at a distance of 1000 km on 14 December and went into a heliocentric orbit with a period of roughly two years.
- Agency
- Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, U of Tokyo
- Destination
- Mars · Earth · Moon
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Orbiter
- Flyby
Launched 1997
Completed · SuccessCassini-Huygens
The 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 1989
Completed · SuccessGalileo
NASA 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 missionVoyager 1
NASA'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
- Flyby
- Interstellar