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NASA launched the Europa Clipper on 14 October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, which will study the Jovian moon Europa while in orbit around Jupiter. EU: PROBA-3: Earth: Operational: solar Coronagraph and Occulter dual satellites developed by ESA. Successfully launched on 5 December 2024 on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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.
NASA brought the Orion spacecraft back to life from the defunct Constellation program and successfully test-launched the first capsule on December 5, 2014, aboard EFT-1. After a near-perfect flight traveling 3,600 miles (5,800 km) above Earth, the spacecraft was recovered for study.
As the atmosphere is transparent for radio waves, radio telescopes in space are most useful for Very Long Baseline Interferometry: doing simultaneous observations of a source with both a satellite and a ground-based telescope and by correlating their signals to simulate a radio telescope the size of the separation between the two telescopes.
Planned for a three-year mission, it proved much more durable, allowing extended observation from its instrument suite. It was launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery and deployed into space from the payload bay with its robotic arm, under guidance from the crew. The satellite underwent atmospheric re-entry at about 04:00 24 September 2011 UTC ...
Launched: 18 June 2009; Destination: Moon (in lunar orbit) Arrival: 23 June 2009; Institution: NASA; Queqiao. Mission: Halo orbiter serving as communications satellite for Chang'e 4 lunar far-side mission; conducting joint China-Netherlands low frequency astronomy experiment. Launched: 21:28 UT on 20 May 2018 [1] Destination: in halo orbit ...
NASA: Flyby Successful [6] Closest approach towards Jupiter at 05:22 UTC on 3 December 1974. Flew by Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Europa . First probe to reach Saturnian system. Final contact was roughly at a distance of 6.5 billion km (43 AU; 4.0 billion mi) [7] 3 Voyager 2: Voyager 2: 20 August 1977 [2] Titan IIIE Centaur-D1T [8] NASA: Flyby ...
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. A small number of pioneering or notable Earth-orbiting craft. [vague] It does not include: Centuries of terrestrial telescopic observation. The great majority of Earth-orbiting satellites.