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Flyby provisionally scheduled at time of spacecraft's failure Rosetta: 2 March 2004: ESA: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Orbiter Successful 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
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 ...
Artist's concept of the proposed Europa Lander mission. The list of proposed missions to the outer planets is a listing of concept studies for an uncrewed or crewed mission to gas giants. Proposed missions to gas giants are typically based on engineering and scientific assessments of technological capabilities at the time of study.
The comet’s closest approach to Earth will be on March 14, but its magnitude is expected to stay the same at that time. Snow Moon : This month’s full moon is on February 24. Let the Universe ...
The best time to see the comet will be as it makes its closest approach to Earth around Oct. 12. Oct. 13-14 : Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will lose some of its brightness but will move farther from ...
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is set to take off today (14 April) after it was delayed yesterday (13 April) due to lightning warnings. Led by the European Space Agency, the mission will ...
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.
Lunar orbiter, a secondary payload on the IM-2 mission [3] Nova-C IM-2: February 2025 Lunar lander [4] EscaPADE: Spring 2025 Two Mars orbiters [5] Tianwen-2: May 2025 Asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa sample return, comet 311P/PanSTARRS orbiter [6] Artemis II: April 2026 4-person lunar flyby [7] [8] Martian Moons eXploration: 2026 Martian moon ...