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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.
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 ...
Mission name Launch date Description Ref(s) Venus Life Finder: January 2025 Private Venus atmospheric probe by Rocket Lab [1] AstroForge's Odin (Brokkr-2) January 2025 First commercial asteroid fly-by mission, rideshare of the IM-2 mission [2] Lunar Trailblazer: January 2025 Lunar orbiter, a secondary payload on the IM-2 mission [3] Nova-C IM-2 ...
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes.
Solar System Exploration program (1 C, 5 P) Surveyor program (NASA) (10 P) V. Viking program (4 P) Voyager program (1 C, 26 P, 1 F) Pages in category "NASA space probes"
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) [6] is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of the Sun's outer corona. It used repeated gravity assists from Venus to develop an eccentric orbit, approaching within 9.86 solar radii (6.9 million km or 4.3 million miles) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] from ...
The first successful probe to fly by another Solar System body was Luna 1, which sped past the Moon in 1959. Originally meant to impact with the Moon, it instead missed its target and became the first artificial object to orbit the Sun. Mariner 2 was the first planetary flyby , passing Venus in 1962.
Probe mass, power source, and propulsion systems are key technology areas for this type of mission. [63] In addition, a probe beyond 550 AU could use the Sun itself as a gravitational lens to observe targets outside the Solar System, such as planetary systems around other nearby stars, [65] although many challenges to this mission have been ...