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flyby success first probe to cross the asteroid belt; first Jupiter probe; first man-made object on an interstellar trajectory; now in the outer regions of the Solar System but no longer contactable 1972-012A: Pioneer 11: NASA: 4 December 1974 flyby success went on to visit Saturn 1973-019A: Voyager 1: NASA: 5 March 1979 flyby success went on ...
Separated from DART and took pictures of its impact with the asteroid. [114] Lucy: Asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh: 16 October 2021 1 November 2023 746 days (2 yr, 17 d) Smallest main-belt asteroid explored by spacecraft yet. Discovered a natural satellite of the asteroid during the flyby. [115] Asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson: 20 April 2025 (planned ...
Venera 1 (Russian: Венера-1 meaning Venus 1), also known as Venera-1VA No.2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 8 was the first spacecraft to perform an interplanetary flight and the first to fly past Venus, as part of the Soviet Union's Venera programme. [1]
Launched on November 28, 1964, [2] Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface. It captured the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space; their depiction of a cratered, dead planet largely changed the scientific community's view of life on Mars.
Flyby on 30 December 2000 en route to Saturn [19] 6 New Horizons: New Horizons: 19 January 2006 [2] Atlas V 551 [20] NASA: Flyby Successful Gravity assist. [20] Major observation campaign from Jan-June. [1] Flyby on 28 February 2007 (closest approach at 05:43:40 [21]) en route to Pluto. [22] First probe to flyby Plutonian system. 7 Juno: Juno ...
The first probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and return data. Although it did not transmit from the surface, this was the first interplanetary transmission of any probe. Landed somewhere near latitude 19° N, longitude 38° E. — Kosmos 167: 4V-1 No.311: Atmospheric probe: 17 June 1967 — — Escape stage failed; Re-entered eight days ...
First interplanetary flight, contact lost en route, before it performed the first flyby at another planet. April 27 US: Explorer 11: Juno II: Earth Partial success: Was the first space-borne gamma-ray telescope. Limited Battery Power caused the data collection to only be in the ascension stage. August 16 US: Explorer 12 (EPE-A) Thor-Delta A: Earth
The program included a number of firsts, including the first planetary flyby, [16] the first pictures from another planet, the first planetary orbiter, [17] and the first interplanetary gravity assist maneuver, [18] which spent more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn.