This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch.It includes:
It does not include:
The dates listed are launch dates, but the achievements noted may have occurred some time laterin some cases, a considerable time later (for example, Voyager 2, launched 20 August 1977, did not reach Neptune until 1989).
Sputnik 1 | 4 October 1957 | First Earth orbiter | [1] [2] | |
Sputnik 2 | 3 November 1957 | Earth orbiter, first animal in orbit, a dog named Laika | [3] [4] | |
Explorer 1 | 1 February 1958 | Earth orbiter; discovered Van Allen radiation belts | [5] | |
Vanguard 1 | 17 March 1958 | Earth orbiter; oldest spacecraft still in Earth orbit | [6] | |
Luna 1 | 2 January 1959 | First lunar flyby (attempted lunar impact?); first artificial satellite in heliocentric orbit. | [7] [8] [9] [10] | |
Pioneer 4 | 3 March 1959 | Lunar flyby | [11] [12] | |
Luna 2 | 12 September 1959 | First extraterrestrial impact and lunar impact, First artificial object on Moon | [13] | |
Luna 3 | 4 October 1959 | Lunar flyby; First images of another celestial body taken from space, most notably, the far side of Moon | [14] |
Mission name | Launch date | Description | ||
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Pioneer 5 | 11 March 1960 | Interplanetary space investigations | [15] [16] | |
Venera 1 | 12 February 1961 | First probe to another planet; Venus flyby (contact lost before flyby) | [17] [18] [19] | |
Vostok 1 | 12 April 1961 | First crewed Earth orbiter (Yuri Gagarin) | [20] [21] | |
Ranger 1 | 23 August 1961 | Attempted lunar test flight (failed to leave Earth orbit) | [22] [23] [24] | |
Ranger 2 | 18 November 1961 | Attempted lunar test flight (failed to leave Earth orbit) | [25] [26] | |
Ranger 3 | 26 January 1962 | Attempted lunar impact (missed Moon) | [27] [28] | |
Ranger 4 | 23 April 1962 | Lunar impact (but unintentionally became the first spacecraft to hit the lunar farside and returned no data) | [29] [30] [31] | |
Mariner 2 | 27 August 1962 | First successful planetary encounter, First successful Venus flyby | [32] [33] [34] | |
Ranger 5 | 18 October 1962 | Attempted lunar impact (missed Moon) | [35] [36] | |
Mars 1 | 1 November 1962 | First probe to Mars: flyby (contact lost) | [37] [38] | |
Luna 4 | 2 April 1963 | Attempted lunar lander (missed Moon) | [39] [40] | |
Cosmos 21 | 11 November 1963 | Attempted Venera test flight? | [41] | |
Ranger 6 | 30 January 1964 | Lunar impact (cameras failed) | [42] [43] | |
Zond 1 | 2 April 1964 | Venus flyby (contact lost) | [44] [45] [46] | |
Ranger 7 | 28 July 1964 | Lunar impact (success) | [47] [48] [49] | |
Voskhod 1 | 12 October 1964 | First orbiter with multimember crew | [50] [51] | |
Mariner 3 | 5 November 1964 | Attempted Mars flyby (failed to attain correct trajectory) | [52] [53] | |
Mariner 4 | 28 November 1964 | First successful Mars flyby | [54] [55] | |
Zond 2 | 30 November 1964 | Mars flyby (contact lost) | [56] [57] | |
Ranger 8 | 17 February 1965 | Lunar impact | [58] [59] | |
Voskhod 2 | 18 March 1965 | First space walk, by Alexei Leonov | [60] | |
Ranger 9 | 21 March 1965 | Lunar impact | [61] [62] | |
Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 | 6 May 1965 | Oldest spacecraft still in use | [63] | |
Luna 5 | 9 May 1965 | Lunar impact (attempted soft landing) | [64] | |
Luna 6 | 8 June 1965 | Attempted lunar lander (missed Moon) | [65] | |
Zond 3 | 18 July 1965 | Lunar flyby | [66] [67] | |
Luna 7 | 4 October 1965 | Lunar impact (attempted soft landing) | [68] | |
Venera 2 | 12 November 1965 | Venus flyby (contact lost) | [69] | |
Venera 3 | 16 November 1965 | Venus lander (contact lost) – First spacecraft to reach another planet's atmosphere and surface, First Venus impact | [70] | |
Luna 8 | 3 December 1965 | Lunar impact (attempted soft landing?) | [71] | |
Pioneer 6 | 16 December 1965 | "Space weather" observations | [72] [73] [74] | |
Luna 9 | 31 January 1966 | First extraterrestrial lander and lunar lander | [75] | |
Luna 10 | 31 March 1966 | First extraterrestrial orbiter and first lunar orbiter | [76] | |
Surveyor 1 | 30 May 1966 | Lunar lander | [77] [78] [79] | |
Explorer 33 | 1 July 1966 | Attempted lunar orbiter (failed to attain lunar orbit) | [80] [81] | |
Lunar Orbiter 1 | 10 August 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [82] [83] [84] | |
Pioneer 7 | 17 August 1966 | "Space weather" observations | [85] [86] | |
Luna 11 | 24 August 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [87] | |
Surveyor 2 | 20 September 1966 | Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon) | [88] [89] | |
Luna 12 | 22 October 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [90] | |
Lunar Orbiter 2 | 6 November 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [91] [92] | |
Luna 13 | 21 December 1966 | Lunar lander | [93] | |
Lunar Orbiter 3 | 5 February 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [94] [95] | |
Surveyor 3 | 17 April 1967 | Lunar lander | [96] [97] | |
Lunar Orbiter 4 | 4 May 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [98] [99] | |
Venera 4 | 12 June 1967 | First functioning extraterrestrial atmospheric probe (Venus) | [100] | |
Mariner 5 | 14 June 1967 | Venus flyby | [101] [102] | |
Surveyor 4 | 14 July 1967 | Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon) | [103] [104] | |
Explorer 35 (IMP-E) | 19 July 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [105] | |
Lunar Orbiter 5 | 1 August 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [106] [107] | |
Surveyor 5 | 8 September 1967 | Lunar lander | [108] [109] | |
Surveyor 6 | 7 November 1967 | Lunar lander, first lift-off from an extraterrestrial body | [110] [111] | |
Apollo 4 | 9 November 1967 | Lunar programme test flight in Earth orbit (uncrewed) | [112] | |
Pioneer 8 | 13 December 1967 | "Space weather" observations | [113] [114] | |
Surveyor 7 | 7 January 1968 | Lunar lander | [115] [116] | |
Apollo 5 | 22 January 1968 | Lunar programme test flight in Earth orbit (uncrewed) | [117] [118] | |
Zond 4 | 2 March 1968 | Lunar programme test flight out of Earth orbit (uncrewed) | [119] [120] [121] | |
Luna 14 | 7 April 1968 | Lunar orbiter | [122] | |
Zond 5 | 14 September 1968 | First lunar flyby and return to Earth, first life forms to circle the Moon | [123] [124] [125] [126] | |
Apollo 7 | 11 October 1968 | Lunar programme test flight in Earth orbit (crewed) | [127] [128] | |
Pioneer 9 | 8 November 1968 | "Space weather" observations | [129] [130] | |
Zond 6 | 10 November 1968 | Lunar flyby and return to Earth | [131] [132] | |
Apollo 8 | 21 December 1968 | First crewed spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, first crewed lunar orbiter | [133] [134] | |
Venera 5 | 5 January 1969 | Venus atmospheric probe | [135] | |
Venera 6 | 10 January 1969 | Venus atmospheric probe | [136] | |
Mariner 6 | 25 February 1969 | Mars flyby | [137] [138] | |
Apollo 9 | 3 March 1969 | Crewed lunar lander (LEM) flight test in Earth orbit | [139] | |
Mariner 7 | 27 March 1969 | Mars flyby | [140] [141] | |
Apollo 10 | 18 May 1969 | Crewed lunar orbiter | [142] [143] | |
Luna 15 | 13 July 1969 | Second attempted lunar sample return | [144] [145] | |
Apollo 11 | 16 July 1969 | First crewed lunar landing and first successful sample return mission | [146] [147] [148] [149] [150] | |
Zond 7 | 7 August 1969 | Lunar flyby and return to Earth | [151] [152] | |
Apollo 12 | 14 November 1969 | Crewed lunar landing | [153] [154] [155] |
Mission name | Launch date | Description | ||
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Apollo 13 | 11 April 1970 | Crewed lunar flyby and return to Earth (crewed lunar landing aborted). Farthest from Earth a human has gone (401,056 km) | [156] [157] [158] [159] | |
Venera 7 | 17 August 1970 | First Venus lander and the first spacecraft to "soft" land on another planet (with some data returned from the surface) | [160] [161] | |
Luna 16 | 12 September 1970 | First robotic lunar sample return | [162] | |
Zond 8 | 20 October 1970 | Lunar flyby and return to Earth | [163] [164] | |
Luna 17/Lunokhod 1 | 10 November 1970 | First remote controlled rover | [165] | |
Apollo 14 | 31 January 1971 | Crewed lunar landing | [166] [167] [168] | |
Salyut 1 | 19 April 1971 | First space station | [169] [170] | |
Mars 2 | 19 May 1971 | First Mars impact, Mars orbiter and attempted lander; First rover (Prop-M) sent to another planet (Mars) | [171] [172] [173] [174] [175] | |
Mars 3 | 28 May 1971 | Mars orbiter, First Mars lander (first image taken from the surface of another planet, though the received image did not show anything); First rover (Prop-M) to be landed but not deployed on another planet (Mars) | [176] [177] [178] [179] [180] | |
Mariner 9 | 30 May 1971 | First to orbit another planet (Mars) | [181] [182] | |
Apollo 15 | 26 July 1971 | Crewed lunar landing; First crewed lunar rover | [183] [184] [185] | |
Luna 18 | 2 September 1971 | Attempted lunar sample return (crashed into Moon) | [186] [187] | |
Luna 19 | 28 September 1971 | Lunar orbiter | [188] | |
Luna 20 | 14 February 1972 | Lunar robotic sample return | [189] | |
Pioneer 10 | 3 March 1972 | First Jupiter flyby | [190] [191] [192] | |
Venera 8 | 27 March 1972 | Venus lander | [193] [194] | |
Apollo 16 | 16 April 1972 | Crewed lunar landing | [195] [196] [197] | |
Apollo 17 | 7 December 1972 | Last crewed lunar landing | [198] [199] [200] [201] | |
Luna 21/Lunokhod 2 | 8 January 1973 | Lunar rover | [202] | |
Pioneer 11 | 5 April 1973 | Jupiter flyby and First Saturn flyby | [203] [204] | |
Explorer 49 (RAE-B) | 10 June 1973 | Lunar orbiter/radio astronomy | [205] [206] | |
Mars 4 | 21 July 1973 | Mars flyby (attempted Mars orbiter) | [207] [208] | |
Mars 5 | 25 July 1973 | Mars orbiter | [209] [210] | |
Mars 6 | 5 August 1973 | Mars flyby and attempted lander (failed due to damage on Mars landing) | [211] [212] | |
Mars 7 | 9 August 1973 | Mars flyby and attempted lander (missed Mars) | [213] [214] | |
Mariner 10 | 3 November 1973 | Lunar and Venus flybys in addition to the First Mercury flyby | [215] [216] [217] [218] | |
Luna 22 | 29 May 1974 | Lunar orbiter | [219] | |
Luna 23 | 28 October 1974 | Attempted lunar sample return (failed due to damage on lunar landing) | [220] | |
Helios-A | 10 December 1974 | Solar observations | [221] [222] | |
Venera 9 | 8 June 1975 | First Venus orbiter and lander; First successful images from the surface of another planet (Venus) | [223] [224] [225] | |
Venera 10 | 14 June 1975 | Venus orbiter and lander | [226] [227] [228] | |
Viking 1 | 20 August 1975 | Mars orbiter and lander; First clear pictures from Martian surface | [229] [230] [231] [232] | |
Viking 2 | 9 September 1975 | Mars orbiter and lander | [233] [234] [235] | |
Helios-B | 15 January 1976 | Solar observations | [236] [237] | |
Luna 24 | 9 August 1976 | Lunar robotic sample return | [238] | |
Voyager 2 | 20 August 1977 | Jupiter/Saturn/first Uranus/first Neptune flyby | [239] [240] [241] | |
Voyager 1 | 5 September 1977 | Jupiter/Saturn flyby, first to exit the heliosphere | [242] [243] | |
Pioneer Venus 1 | 20 May 1978 | Venus orbiter | [244] [245] | |
Pioneer Venus 2 | 8 August 1978 | Venus atmospheric probes | [246] [247] | |
ISEE-3 | 12 August 1978 | Solar wind investigations; later redesignated International Cometary Explorer and performed Comet Giacobini-Zinner and Comet Halley flybys – First comet flyby | [248] [249] [250] | |
Venera 11 | 9 September 1978 | Venus flyby and lander | [251] [252] [253] | |
Venera 12 | 14 September 1978 | Venus flyby and lander | [254] [255] [256] |
Mission name | Launch date | Description | ||
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Venera 13 | 30 October 1981 | Venus flyby and lander. First recording of sound on another planet. | [257] [258] [259] | |
Venera 14 | 4 November 1981 | Venus flyby and lander | [260] [261] [262] | |
Venera 15 | 2 June 1983 | Venus orbiter | [263] [264] | |
Venera 16 | 7 June 1983 | Venus orbiter | [265] [266] | |
Vega 1 | 15 December 1984 | Venus flyby, lander and first extraterrestrial aircraft (aerostat balloon); continued on to Comet Halley flyby | [267] [268] [269] [270] [271] | |
Vega 2 | 21 December 1984 | Venus flyby, lander and balloon; continued on to Comet Halley flyby | [272] [273] [274] [275] | |
Sakigake | 8 January 1985 | Comet Halley flyby | [276] [277] | |
Giotto | 2 July 1985 | First close observation of comet (distance 596 kilometers), Comet Halley flyby | [278] [279] [280] | |
Suisei (Planet-A) | 18 August 1985 | Comet Halley flyby | [281] [282] | |
Mir | 19 February 1986 | First modular space station (operational 1986–2000; final module added 1996) | [283] [284] [285] | |
Phobos 1 | 7 July 1988 | Attempted Mars orbiter/Phobos landers (contact lost) | [286] [287] | |
Phobos 2 | 12 July 1988 | Mars orbiter/attempted Phobos landers (contact lost) | [288] [289] | |
Magellan | 4 May 1989 | Venus orbiter | [290] [291] | |
Galileo | 18 October 1989 | Venus flyby, first Asteroid flyby (Gaspra), first Asteroid moon discovery (Dactyl), first Jupiter orbiter, first Jupiter atmospheric probe | [292] [293] [294] [295] |
Mission name | Launch date | Description | ||
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Hiten (MUSES-A) | 24 January 1990 | Lunar flyby and orbiter | [296] [297] | |
Hubble Space Telescope | 24 April 1990 | Orbital space telescope (operational since 1990) | [298] [299] [300] | |
Ulysses | 6 October 1990 | Solar polar orbiter | [301] [302] [303] | |
Yohkoh (Solar-A) | 30 August 1991 | Solar observations (1991–2001) | [304] [305] | |
Mars Observer | 25 September 1992 | Attempted Mars orbiter (contact lost) | [306] [307] | |
Clementine | 25 January 1994 | Lunar orbiter/attempted asteroid flyby (contact lost) | [308] [309] [310] | |
WIND | 1 November 1994 | Solar wind observations | [311] [312] | |
SOHO | 2 December 1995 | Solar observatory (operational since 1996) | [313] [314] [315] | |
NEAR Shoemaker | 17 February 1996 | Eros orbiter, first near-Earth asteroid flyby, first asteroid orbit and first asteroid landing | [316] [317] [318] | |
Mars Global Surveyor | 7 November 1996 | Mars orbiter | [319] [320] | |
Mars 96 | 16 November 1996 | Attempted Mars orbiter/landers (failed to escape Earth orbit) | [321] [322] | |
Mars Pathfinder | 4 December 1996 | Mars lander and first successful planetary rover | [323] [324] [325] | |
ACE | 25 August 1997 | Solar wind and "space weather" observations (operational since 1998) | [326] [327] | |
Cassini–Huygens | 15 October 1997 | First Saturn orbiter and first outer planet moon lander (on Titan) | [328] [329] [330] [331] [332] | |
Lunar Prospector | 7 January 1998 | Lunar orbiter | [333] [334] | |
Nozomi (Planet-B) | 3 July 1998 | Attempted Mars orbiter (failed to enter Mars orbit) | [335] [336] | |
Deep Space 1 (DS1) | 24 October 1998 | Asteroid and comet flyby | [337] [338] | |
ISS | 20 November 1998 | International space station | [339] [340] | |
Mars Climate Orbiter | 11 December 1998 | Attempted Mars orbiter (orbit insertion failed; entered atmosphere and was destroyed) | [341] [342] | |
Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2 (DS2) | 3 January 1999 | Attempted Mars lander/penetrators (contact lost) | [343] [344] [345] | |
Stardust | 7 February 1999 | First comet coma sample return (returned 15 January 2006) | [346] [347] [348] |
Mission name | Launch date | Description | ||
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2001 Mars Odyssey | 7 April 2001 | Mars orbiter | [349] [350] | |
Genesis | 8 August 2001 | First solar wind sample return | [351] [352] [353] [354] | |
CONTOUR | 3 July 2002 | Attempted flyby of comet nuclei (Encke, Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and optionally a third one; lost in space) | [355] [356] | |
Hayabusa (MUSES-C) | 9 May 2003 | Asteroid lander and first sample return from asteroid | [357] [358] | |
Mars Express/Beagle 2 | 2 June 2003 | Mars orbiter/attempted lander (lander failure) | [359] [360] [361] [362] | |
Mars Exploration Rover Spirit | 10 June 2003 | Mars rover | [363] [364] | |
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity | 8 July 2003 | Mars rover | [365] [366] | |
SMART-1 | 27 September 2003 | Lunar orbiter | [367] [368] | |
Rosetta/Philae | 2 March 2004 | Asteroid Šteins and Lutetia flybys; first comet orbiter and lander (Landed in November 2014) | [369] [370] [371] [372] | |
MESSENGER | 3 August 2004 | First Mercury orbiter (Achieved orbit 18 March 2011) | [373] [374] [375] | |
Deep Impact | 12 January 2005 | Comet flyby and impact | [376] [377] [378] [379] | |
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | 12 August 2005 | Mars orbiter | [380] [381] | |
Venus Express | 9 November 2005 | Venus polar orbiter | [382] [383] | |
New Horizons | 19 January 2006 | First Pluto/Charon flyby (on 14 July 2015); continued on to 486958 Arrokoth flyby (on 1 January 2019) | [384] [385] [386] [387] | |
Hinode (Solar-B) | 22 September 2006 | Solar orbiter | [388] [389] | |
STEREO | 26 October 2006 | Two spacecraft, solar orbiters | [390] [391] [392] | |
Phoenix | 4 August 2007 | Mars polar lander (Mars landing on 25 May 2008) | [393] [394] | |
SELENE (Kaguya) | 14 September 2007 | Lunar orbiters | [395] [396] [397] [398] | |
Dawn | 27 September 2007 | Asteroid Ceres and Vesta orbiter (Entered orbit around Vesta on 16 July 2011 and around Ceres on 6 March 2015) | [399] [400] [401] | |
Chang'e 1 | 24 October 2007 | Lunar orbiter | [402] [403] [404] | |
Chandrayaan-1 | 22 October 2008 | Lunar orbiter and impactor; discovered water on the Moon | [405] [406] [407] | |
Herschel Space Observatory | 14 May 2009 | Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L2 Lagrange point | [408] [409] | |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS | 18 June 2009 | Lunar polar orbiter and lunar impactor | [410] [411] [412] [413] | |
WISE (NEOWISE) | 14 December 2009 | Infrared survey of celestial sky (WISE mission); later Near-Earth object survey (NEOWISE mission) | [414] [415] [416] |
Mission name | Launch date | Description | ||
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Solar Dynamics Observatory | 11 February 2010 | Continuous solar monitoring | [417] [418] | |
Akatsuki (Planet-C) | 20 May 2010 | Venus orbiter (orbit insertion failed in 2010 / successful orbit insertion on 7 December 2015) | [419] [420] [421] | |
PICARD | 15 June 2010 | Solar monitoring | [422] [423] | |
Chang'e 2 | 1 October 2010 | Lunar orbiter, asteroid 4179 Toutatis flyby | [424] [425] | |
Juno | 5 August 2011 | Jupiter orbiter | [426] [427] | |
GRAIL | 10 September 2011 | Two spacecraft, Lunar orbiters | [428] [429] [430] | |
Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 | 8 November 2011 | Phobos orbiter, lander and sample return (Russia), Mars orbiter (China) | Attempted Phobos sample return and Mars orbiter, respectively; both failed to escape Earth orbit | [431] [432] |
Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity rover) | 26 November 2011 | Mars rover (landed 6 August 2012) | [433] [434] | |
Van Allen Probes (RBSP) | 30 August 2012 | Earth Van Allen radiation belts study | [435] [436] [437] | |
IRIS | 28 June 2013 | Solar observations | [438] | |
LADEE | 7 September 2013 | Lunar orbiter | [439] [440] | |
Hisaki | 14 September 2013 | Planetary atmosphere observatory | [441] | |
Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) | 5 November 2013 | Mars orbiter | [442] [443] [444] | |
MAVEN | 18 November 2013 | Mars orbiter | [445] [446] | |
Chang'e 3 | 1 December 2013 | Lunar lander and rover (first lander since Soviet Luna 24 in 1976) | [447] [448] [449] | |
Chang'e 5-T1 | 23 October 2014 | Circumlunar mission and Earth reentry; technology demonstration to prepare for Chang'e 5 mission | [450] | |
Hayabusa2 / MASCOT | 3 December 2014 | Asteroid lander and sample return (sample returned 5 December 2020), first asteroid rover | [451] [452] [453] | |
PROCYON | 3 December 2014 | Comet observer and attempted asteroid flyby (engine failure) | [454] | |
DSCOVR | 11 February 2015 | Solar observation | [455] [456] | |
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and EDM lander | 14 March 2016 | Mars orbiter and attempted lander (lander failure) | [457] [458] | |
OSIRIS-REx | 8 September 2016 | Asteroid sample return mission | [459] [460] | |
InSight | 5 May 2018 | Mars lander | [461] [462] | |
Queqiao | 20 May 2018 | Relay satellite for Chang'e 4 in Halo orbit around Earth–Moon L2 Lagrange point | [463] | |
Parker Solar Probe | 12 August 2018 | Solar corona probe, closest solar approach (NaNkm (-2,147,483,648miles)) | [464] [465] | |
BepiColombo | 19 October 2018 | Two Mercury orbiters | [466] [467] | |
Chang'e 4 | 7 December 2018 | Lunar lander and rover, first landing on the lunar far side | [468] [469] | |
Beresheet | 22 February 2019 | Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon) | [470] [471] | |
Chandrayaan-2 | 22 July 2019 | Lunar orbiter; attempted lander and rover (contact lost during final stage of descent) | [472] [473] |
Mission name | Launch date | Description | ||
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Solar Orbiter | 10 February 2020 | Sun-observing satellite | [474] [475] [476] | |
Mars Hope | 19 July 2020 | Mars orbiter | [477] | |
Tianwen-1 (Zhurong rover) | 23 July 2020 | Mars orbiter, lander, and rover | [478] | |
Mars 2020 (Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter) | 30 July 2020 | Mars rover and helicopter drone; first powered flight on another planet | [479] [480] [481] | |
Chang'e 5 | 23 November 2020 | Lunar sample return | [482] | |
Lucy | 16 October 2021 | Flyby of six Jupiter trojans and two main belt asteroids | [483] [484] | |
DART / LICIACube | 24 November 2021 | Asteroid 65803 Didymos flyby, asteroid moon Dimorphos impactor | [485] [486] | |
James Webb Space Telescope | 25 December 2021 | Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L2 | [487] [488] | |
CAPSTONE | 28 June 2022 | Lunar orbiter | [489] | |
Danuri (KPLO) | 5 August 2022 | Lunar orbiter | [490] | |
Artemis 1 and 10 cubesats | 16 November 2022 | Uncrewed lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System. The cubesats are launched as rideshares and will execute their own missions. | [491] | |
Hakuto-R Mission 1 (Rashid rover) and Lunar Flashlight | 11 December 2022 | Lunar lander technology demonstration, lunar rover, and lunar orbiter launched together (crashed into Moon) | [492] [493] [494] | |
JUICE | 14 April 2023 | Jupiter/Ganymede orbiter | [495] | |
Chandrayaan-3 | 14 July 2023 | Lunar orbiter, lander and rover; first soft landing near the lunar South Pole | [496] [497] | |
Luna 25 | 10 August 2023 | Attempted lunar south pole lander (crashed into Moon) | [498] [499] | |
Aditya-L1 | 2 September 2023 | Sun-observing spacecraft at Sun–Earth L1 | [500] | |
SLIM (LEV-1, LEV-2) | 6 September 2023 | Lunar flyby, lander and rovers | [501] [502] | |
Psyche | 13 October 2023 | Asteroid 16 Psyche orbiter | [503] | |
Peregrine Mission One (including Iris and Colmena rovers) | 8 January 2024 | Lunar lander and rovers (landing precluded) | [504] | |
IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus (including EagleCam deployable camera) | 15 February 2024 | Lunar landers | [505] | |
DRO A/B | 13 March 2024 | Lunar orbiters | [506] | |
Queqiao-2 (including Tiandu-1 and 2) | 20 March 2024 | Lunar orbiters | [507] | |
Chang'e 6 (including Pakistan's ICUBE-Q cubesat) | 3 May 2024 | Lunar sample return, rover and orbiters; first sample return from the lunar far side | [508] [509] |
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