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NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return: 2027 [needs update] ESA: 2023 Mars sample return mission [42] Ramses: 2029 ESA 2024 Asteroid orbiter [43] Tera-hertz Explorer: 2020s [citation needed] Mars orbiter and lander [44] [45] Venera-D: 2031 Russian Space Research Institute: 2023 Venus orbiter and lander [46] Uranus Orbiter and Probe: NET 2031 NASA: 2023 ...
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip, [1] to be capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system 4.34 light-years away.
In December 2017, NASA released a mission concept involving the launch, in 2069, of an interstellar probe to search for signs of life on planets orbiting stars in and around the Alpha Centauri system. [1] [2] The announcement was at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union. [3]
Breakthrough Enceladus is an astrobiology space probe mission concept to explore the possibility of life on Saturn's moon, Enceladus. [6] In September 2018, NASA signed a collaboration agreement with Breakthrough to jointly create the mission concept. [ 31 ]
Solar System space probes operational as of November 2024. This is a list of active space probes which have escaped Earth orbit. It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points (for these, see List of objects at Lagrangian points). A craft is deemed "active" if it is still able to ...
The Magellan spacecraft was a space probe sent to the planet Venus, the first uncrewed interplanetary spacecraft to be launched by NASA since its successful Pioneer Orbiter, also to Venus, in 1978. It was also the first deep-space probe to be launched on the Space Shuttle. [38] In 1993, it employed aerobraking techniques to lower its orbit.
Project Starlight is a research project of the University of California, Santa Barbara to develop a fleet of laser beam-propelled interstellar probes and sending them to a star neighboring the Solar System, potentially Alpha Centauri. The project aims to send organisms on board the probe.