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Entered orbit around 67P at 09:06 UTC on 6 August 2014. On 30 September 2016 mission ended in an attempt to slow land on the comet's surface near a 130 m (425 ft) wide pit called Deir el-Medina. Ariane 5G+ Philae: 2 March 2004: ESA / DLR Germany: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Lander Successful: Carried by Rosetta.
The craft are further grouped by mission status – "en-route", "mission in progress" or "mission complete" – based on their primary mission. For example, though Voyager 1 is still contactable en-route to the Oort Cloud and has exited the Solar System , it is listed as "mission complete" because its primary task of studying Jupiter and Saturn ...
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.
🪨 Asteroids 🪨. NASA keeps a handy list of the five closest asteroids predicted to fly by Earth, including 2022 YH3, a whopping 290-foot rocky mass that whipped by our planet on January 14 ...
The second moon that Earth has captured in its orbit this month is an asteroid called 2024 PT5. Mini-moons like this could be ideal targets for asteroid mining to send humans deeper into space ...
Lunar orbiter, a secondary payload on the IM-2 mission [8] EscaPADE: Spring 2025 Two Mars orbiters [9] Tianwen-2: May 2025 Asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa sample return, comet 311P/PanSTARRS orbiter [10] Artemis II: April 2026 4-person lunar flyby [11] [12] Martian Moons eXploration: 2026 Martian moon sample return mission [13] Chang'e 7: 2026
The famed "devil comet," officially known as 12P/Pons-Brooks, on April 21 made it closest approach to the sun in its 71-year orbit of the massive star.. Earning its nickname from its distinctive ...
Montage of planets and some moons that the two Voyager spacecraft have visited and studied. It is the only program that visited all four outer planets. A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter, with four spacecraft also visiting Saturn.