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Extended mission. Closest approach of 200 kilometres (120 mi) at 15:30 UTC on 10 July 1992. [7] Suisei (PLANET-A) 19 August 1985: ISAS Japan: 1P/Halley: Flyby Successful Closest approach of 152,400 kilometres (94,700 mi) at 13:06 UTC on 8 March 1986 [8] Mu-3S-II: 21P/Giacobini–Zinner: Flyby Spacecraft failure (Extended mission)
The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft consisted of NASA's Cassini orbiter and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. [11] Cassini became the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it operated from 2004 to 2017.
Moon of a near-Earth asteroid of the Apollo group; flyby target of one and kinetic impact target of another spacecraft to test asteroid deflection [7] [8] 152830 Dinkinesh: 0.79: 1999 Lucy: 2023 425 1,100: Flyby; discovered Selam; smallest main-belt asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft [9] [10] Notes:
Dawn was orbiting the asteroid–dwarf planet Ceres since 2015 and it is still there as of 2023, but it became inactive since 2018. In 2014 Rosetta spacecraft becomes the first comet orbiter, around Churyumov–Gerasimenko. [69] The first probe to land on another Solar System body was the Soviet Luna 2 probe, which impacted the Moon in 1959.
Mission Type Outcome 1 Pioneer 10: Pioneer 10: 3 March 1972 [2] Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D [3] NASA: Flyby Successful [4] Humanity's first object to attain Solar system's escape velocity. First probe to traverse the asteroid belt, to reach Jovanian system, to use a gravity assist and to leave the proximity of Solar systems' planets.
Circumlunar mission and Earth reentry; technology demonstration to prepare for Chang'e 5 mission [451] Hayabusa2 / MASCOT: 3 December 2014 Asteroid lander and sample return (sample returned 5 December 2020), first asteroid rover [359] [452] [453] PROCYON: 3 December 2014 Comet observer and attempted asteroid flyby (engine failure) [454] DSCOVR ...
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ICE transited between the Sun and Comet Halley in late March 1986, when other spacecraft were near the comet on their early-March comet rendezvous missions. (This "Halley Armada" included Giotto, Vega 1 and 2, Suisei and Sakigake.) ICE flew through the tail; its minimum distance to the comet nucleus was 28 × 10 ^ 6 km (17 × 10 ^ 6 mi). [19]