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This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts.The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay.
List of sub-landers onboard Mars landers S.No Sub-Landers Type Lander Slot Launch Date Mass (kg) Status References 1. PrOP-M: Rover Mars 2 19 May 1971 4.5 Failure [3] [4] 2. PrOP-M: Rover Mars 3 28 May 1971 4.5 Not deployed [4] [5] 3. Mars 96: Penetrator Mars 96 16 Nov 1996 88 Failure [11] 4. Deep Space 2: Penetrator Mars Polar Lander 03 Jan ...
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Lost with Mars 96: Two Mars Penetrators to have been deployed by Mars 96. Mars 96 penetrator Penetrator Launch failure Lost with Mars 96: 29 Mars Pathfinder: Mars Pathfinder: 4 December 1996: NASA United States: Lander Successful Landed at 19.13°N 33.22°W on 4 July 1997, [17] Last contact on 27 September 1997 Delta II 7925: Sojourner: Rover ...
Mars Global Surveyor: USA 11 September 1997 Contact lost 2 November 2006; In derelict orbit around Mars, expected to decay no sooner than 2047 [19] 2001 Mars Odyssey: USA 24 October 2001 Active Longest-surviving, continuously active spacecraft in orbit around another planet Mars Express: ESA: 20 December 2003 Active Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: USA
Meanwhile, the uncrewed exploration of Mars has been a goal of national space programs for decades, and was first achieved in 1965 with the Mariner 4 flyby. Human missions to Mars have been part of science fiction since the 1880s, and more broadly, in fiction, Mars is a frequent target of exploration and settlement in books, graphic novels, and ...
First spacecraft to orbit another planet . USA (NASA) Mariner 9: 27 November 1971: First spacecraft to impact another planet (Mars). USSR Mars 2: 2 December 1971: First soft landing on Mars. First signals from Martian surface. First photograph from Martian surface. USSR Mars 3: 3 March 1972: First spacecraft on a trajectory out of the solar system.
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 ...