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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 ...
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.
The Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR) is a large radar system used for investigating objects in the Solar System.Located in the desert near Barstow, California, it comprises a 500-kW X-band (8500 MHz) transmitter and a low-noise receiver on the 70-m DSS 14 antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. [1]
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe launches from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to orbit Jupiter and study its icy moon, Europa, for signs ...
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), commonly called the Goldstone Observatory, is a satellite ground station located in Fort Irwin [1] in the U.S. state of California. Operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), its main purpose is to track and communicate with interplanetary space missions.
The TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) is an orbiter mission dedicated to study the dynamics of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) portion of the Earth's atmosphere. [2] The mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on December 7, 2001 aboard a Delta II rocket launch vehicle. [3]
First commercial asteroid fly-by mission, rideshare of the IM-2 mission [7] Lunar Trailblazer: January 2025 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 ...
Mission ended on 23 October 2013; Planck has been moved to a heliocentric parking orbit. [33] Chang'e 2: Sun–Earth L 2: CNSA: Arrived in August 2011 after completing a lunar mission before departing en route to asteroid 4179 Toutatis in April 2012. [12] ARTEMIS mission extension of THEMIS: Earth–Moon L 1 and L 2: NASA