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This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts. The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay .
Landing Location Ref. 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Philae: 100 kg (220 lb) ESA/DLR: 12 November 2014 "Abydos" Rosetta: 1,230 kg (2,710 lb) ESA 30 September 2016 "Sais" 433 Eros: NEAR Shoemaker: 487 kg (1,074 lb) NASA/APL: 12 February 2001: South of Himeros crater [1] 25143 Itokawa: Hayabusa target marker 0.6 kg (1.3 lb) [citation needed] JAXA ...
first Earth flyby, en route to Comet Grigg-Skjellerup [1] Galileo (first pass) NASA: 8 December 1990 flyby 960 km success gravity assist en route to Jupiter; minimum distance 960 km [2] Sakigake (first pass) ISAS: 8 January 1992 flyby 88,790 km success previously visited Halley's comet [3] Suisei: ISAS: 20 August 1992 flyby failure failure
The crash landing sites themselves are of interest to space archeology. Luna 1 , not itself a lunar orbiter, was the first spacecraft designed as an impactor . It failed to hit the Moon in 1959, however, thus inadvertently becoming the first man-made object to leave geocentric orbit and enter a heliocentric orbit , where it remains.
First Chinese lunar landing Chang'e 5-T1: China 13 January 2015 Returned to Earth on 31 October 2014 Chang'e 4: China 12 December 2018 Landed on lunar surface 3 January 2019. The Queqiao relay satellite was placed in an Earth-Moon L 2 halo orbit. First lunar far-side landing Longjiang-2 microsatellite China 25 May 2018 Deorbited 2019 Beresheet ...
The 30-foot-wide Super Heavy first stage, loaded with 6.8 million pounds of liquid oxygen and methane propellants, stands 230 feet tall and is powered by 33 SpaceX-designed Raptor engines ...
Presumed crash landing and failure. Chandrayaan-3: Pragyan: ISRO: 23 August 2023 3] 12 days 101.4 m (333 ft) [4] as of 2 September 2023: Successful First rover to successfully operate near lunar south pole. SLIM: LEV-1 JAXA: 19 January 2024
UFO proponents see comments by astronauts or photos processed by NASA as one of the "strongest bodies of evidence" because they are considered to be of high trustworthiness; however, NASA Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs, Robert F. Allnut, concluded in a 1970 letter, "after fifteen years of manned space voyages including space ...