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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.
A probe equipped with a Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) propulsion system, planned to orbit and land on Pluto. [137] 2 Shensuo: IHP-1: May 2024 N/A CNSA: Flyby Planned A proposed probe in the Shensuo program (Chinese: 神梭), planned to launch alongside IHP-2 and the proposed IHP-3. IHP-1 will use gravity assists from Earth in October 2025 and ...
[47] [48] A Florida state quarter coin, whose design commemorates human exploration, is included, officially as a trim weight, [49] as is a Maryland state quarter to honor the probe's builders. [40] One of the science packages (a dust counter) is named after Venetia Burney, who, as a child, suggested the name "Pluto" after its discovery.
The probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. At that close distance, "Parker will cut through plumes of plasma ...
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 ...
Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a NASA robotic space probe launched on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, the solar wind, and cosmic rays. [2] It was the first probe to encounter Saturn, the second to fly through the asteroid belt, and the second to fly by Jupiter.
The Chang'e 3 lander also carries an extensible soil probe. [39] [43] Rover. Boulders near Ziwei crater. Image captured by Yutu rover. The development of the six ...