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|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-032A|title=Salyut 1|last=|first=|date=|website=nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/Salyut|title=Salyut {{!}} History & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref> |
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|{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[Mars 2]] |
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|'''First Mars impact''', Mars orbiter and attempted lander; '''First rover on Martian surface''' ([[Mars_2|Prop-M]] unsuccessful) |
|'''First Mars impact''', Mars orbiter and attempted lander; '''First rover on Martian surface''' ([[Mars_2|Prop-M]] unsuccessful) |
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|{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[Mars 3]] |
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|Mars orbiter, '''First Mars lander''' (lost contact after 14.5s) |
|Mars orbiter, '''First Mars lander''' (lost contact after 14.5s) |
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|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-049A|title=Mars 3|last=|first=|date=|website=nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-049F|title=Mars 3 Lander|last=|first=|date=|website=nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-03/in-depth|title=In Depth {{!}} Mars 03|website=NASA Solar System Exploration|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Mars-planet|title=Mars - Spacecraft exploration|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mars.nasa.gov/news/1463/nasa-mars-orbiter-images-may-show-1971-soviet-lander|title=NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet Lander|last=|first=|date=|website=NASA’s Mars Exploration Program|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-04-17|quote=Mars 3 became the first successful soft landing on the Red Planet, but stopped transmitting after just 14.5 seconds for unknown reasons.}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:51, 17 April 2019
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It has been suggested that everything but the "Planned or scheduled" section be split out into another article titled Timeline of space exploration. (Discuss) (April 2019) |
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordered by date of spacecraft launch. It includes:
- 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.
It does not include:
- Centuries of terrestrial telescopic observation.
- The great majority of Earth-orbiting satellites.
- Space probes leaving Earth orbit that are not concerned with Solar System exploration (such as space telescopes targeted at distant galaxies, cosmic background radiation observatories, and so on).
- Probes that failed at launch.
The dates listed are launch dates, but the achievements noted may have occurred some time later—in some cases, a considerable time later (for example, Voyager 2, launched 20 August 1977, did not reach Neptune until 1989).
Missions in italics are unfinished, i.e. have not yet been designated as successes or failures. Some unitalicised missions are nevertheless still operational, some in mission extension phases.
1950s
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Sputnik 1 | 4 October 1957 | First Earth orbiter | [1][2] |
Sputnik 2 | 3 November 1957 | Earth orbiter, first animal in orbit, a dog named Laika | [2][3][4] |
Explorer 1 | 1 February 1958 | Earth orbiter; first American orbiter, discovered Van Allen radiation belts | [5] |
Vanguard 1 | 17 March 1958 | Earth orbiter; oldest spacecraft still in Earth orbit | [6] |
Luna 1 | 2 January 1959 | First lunar flyby (attempted lunar impact?); first artificial satellite in heliocentric orbit. | [7][8][9][10] |
Pioneer 4 | 3 March 1959 | Lunar flyby | [11][12] |
Luna 2 | 12 September 1959 | First lunar impact, First artificial object on Moon | [10][13] |
Luna 3 | 4 October 1959 | Lunar flyby; First images of far side of Moon | [10][14] |
1960s
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Pioneer 5 | 11 March 1960 | Interplanetary space investigations | [15][16] |
Venera 1 | 12 February 1961 | First probe to another planet; Venus flyby (contact lost before flyby) | [17][18][19] |
Vostok 1 | 12 April 1961 | First manned Earth orbiter | [20][21] |
Mercury-Redstone 3 | 5 May 1961 | First American in space | [22] |
Ranger 1 | 23 August 1961 | Attempted lunar test flight | [23][24][25] |
Ranger 2 | 18 November 1961 | Attempted lunar test flight | [25][26][27] |
Ranger 3 | 26 January 1962 | Attempted lunar impact (missed Moon) | [25][28][29] |
Mercury-Atlas 6 | 20 February 1962 | First American manned Earth orbiter | [30] |
Ranger 4 | 23 April 1962 | Lunar impact (but unintentionally became the first spacecraft to hit the lunar farside and returned no data) | [25][31][32][33] |
Mariner 2 | 27 August 1962 | First successful planetary encounter, First successful Venus flyby | [34][35][36] |
Ranger 5 | 18 October 1962 | Attempted lunar impact (missed Moon) | [25][37][38] |
Mars 1 | 1 November 1962 | First probe to Mars: flyby (contact lost) | [39][40] |
Luna 4 | 2 April 1963 | Attempted lunar lander (missed Moon) | [41][42] |
Cosmos 21 | 11 November 1963 | Attempted Venera test flight? | [43] |
Ranger 6 | 30 January 1964 | Lunar impact (cameras failed) | [44][45] |
Zond 1 | 2 April 1964 | Venus flyby (contact lost) | [46][47][48] |
Ranger 7 | 28 July 1964 | Lunar impact | [49][50] |
Voskhod 1 | 12 October 1964 | First orbiter with multimember crew | [51][52] |
Mariner 3 | 5 November 1964 | Attempted Mars flyby (failed to attain correct trajectory) | [53][54] |
Mariner 4 | 28 November 1964 | First successful Mars flyby | [55][56] |
Zond 2 | 30 November 1964 | Mars flyby (contact lost) | [48][57][58] |
Ranger 8 | 17 February 1965 | Lunar impact | [59][60] |
Voskhod 2 | 18 March 1965 | First space walk by Alexei Leonov | [52][61] |
Ranger 9 | 21 March 1965 | Lunar impact | [62][63] |
Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 | 6 May 1965 | Oldest spacecraft still in use[citation needed] | [64] |
Luna 5 | 9 May 1965 | Lunar impact (attempted soft landing) | [65] |
Luna 6 | 8 June 1965 | Attempted lunar lander (missed Moon) | [66] |
Zond 3 | 18 July 1965 | Lunar flyby | [48][67][68] |
Luna 7 | 4 October 1965 | Lunar impact (attempted soft landing) | [69] |
Venera 2 | 12 November 1965 | Venus flyby (contact lost) | [70][18] |
Venera 3 | 16 November 1965 | Venus lander (contact lost) – First spacecraft to reach another planet's surface, First Venus impact | [71][18] |
Luna 8 | 3 December 1965 | Lunar impact (attempted soft landing?) | [72] |
Pioneer 6 | 16 December 1965 | "Space weather" observations | [73][74][75][76] |
Luna 9 | 31 January 1966 | First lunar lander | [10][77] |
AS-201 | 26 February 1966 | Lunar programme test flight | [78] |
Luna 10 | 31 March 1966 | First lunar orbiter | [79] |
Surveyor 1 | 30 May 1966 | Lunar lander | [80][81][82] |
Explorer 33 | 1 July 1966 | Attempted lunar orbiter (failed to attain lunar orbit) | [83][84] |
Lunar Orbiter 1 | 10 August 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [85][86][87] |
Pioneer 7 | 17 August 1966 | "Space weather" observations | [76][88][89] |
Luna 11 | 24 August 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [90] |
Surveyor 2 | 20 September 1966 | Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon) | [91][92] |
Luna 12 | 22 October 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [93] |
Lunar Orbiter 2 | 6 November 1966 | Lunar orbiter | [94][95] |
Luna 13 | 21 December 1966 | Lunar lander | [96] |
Lunar Orbiter 3 | 5 February 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [97][98] |
Surveyor 3 | 17 April 1967 | Lunar lander | [99][100] |
Lunar Orbiter 4 | 4 May 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [101][102] |
Venera 4 | 12 June 1967 | First Venus atmospheric probe | [18][103] |
Mariner 5 | 14 June 1967 | Venus flyby | [104][105] |
Surveyor 4 | 14 July 1967 | Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon) | [106][107] |
Explorer 35 (IMP-E) | 19 July 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [108] |
Lunar Orbiter 5 | 1 August 1967 | Lunar orbiter | [87][109][110] |
Surveyor 5 | 8 September 1967 | Lunar lander | [111][112] |
Surveyor 6 | 7 November 1967 | Lunar lander, first lift-off from an extraterrestrial body | [81][113][114] |
Apollo 4 | 9 November 1967 | Lunar programme test flight | |
Pioneer 8 | 13 December 1967 | "Space weather" observations | [76][115][116] |
Surveyor 7 | 7 January 1968 | Lunar lander | [117][118] |
Apollo 5 | 22 January 1968 | Lunar programme test flight | |
Zond 4 | 2 March 1968 | Lunar programme test flight | [48][119][120][121] |
Luna 14 | 7 April 1968 | Lunar orbiter | [122] |
Zond 5 | 14 September 1968 | First lunar flyby and return to Earth, first life forms to circle the Moon | [48][123][124][125][126] |
Apollo 7 | 11 October 1968 | Lunar programme test flight (manned) | |
Pioneer 9 | 8 November 1968 | "Space weather" observations | [76][127][128] |
Zond 6 | 10 November 1968 | Lunar flyby and return to Earth | [48][129][130] |
Apollo 8 | 21 December 1968 | First manned lunar orbiter | |
Venera 5 | 5 January 1969 | Venus atmospheric probe | [18][131] |
Venera 6 | 10 January 1969 | Venus atmospheric probe | [18][132] |
Mariner 6 | 25 February 1969 | Mars flyby | [133][134] |
Apollo 9 | 3 March 1969 | Manned lunar lander (LEM) flight test | |
Mariner 7 | 27 March 1969 | Mars flyby | [135][136] |
Apollo 10 | 18 May 1969 | Manned lunar orbiter | |
Luna 15 | 13 July 1969 | Second attempted lunar sample return | [137][138] |
Apollo 11 | 16 July 1969 | First manned lunar landing and first successful sample return mission | |
Zond 7 | 7 August 1969 | Lunar flyby and return to Earth | [48][139][140] |
Apollo 12 | 14 November 1969 | Manned lunar landing |
1970s
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Apollo 13 | 11 April 1970 | Manned lunar flyby and return to Earth (manned lunar landing aborted) Farthest from Earth a human has gone | |
Venera 7 | 17 August 1970 | First Venus lander and the first spacecraft to land on another planet | [18][141][142] |
Luna 16 | 12 September 1970 | First robotic lunar sample return | [10][143] |
Zond 8 | 20 October 1970 | Lunar flyby and return to Earth | [48][144][145] |
Luna 17/Lunokhod 1 | 10 November 1970 | First remote controlled rover | [10][146] |
Apollo 14 | 31 January 1971 | Manned lunar landing | [147] |
Salyut 1 | 19 April 1971 | First space station | [148][149] |
Mars 2 | 19 May 1971 | First Mars impact, Mars orbiter and attempted lander; First rover on Martian surface (Prop-M unsuccessful) | [150][151][152][153][154] |
Mars 3 | 28 May 1971 | Mars orbiter, First Mars lander (lost contact after 14.5s) | [155][156][157][158][159] |
Mariner 9 | 30 May 1971 | First Mars orbiter | [160][161] |
Apollo 15 | 26 July 1971 | Manned lunar landing; First manned lunar rover | |
Luna 18 | 2 September 1971 | Attempted lunar sample return (crashed into Moon) | [162][163] |
Luna 19 | 28 September 1971 | Lunar orbiter | [164] |
Luna 20 | 14 February 1972 | Lunar robotic sample return | [165] |
Pioneer 10 | 3 March 1972 | First Jupiter flyby | [166][167][168] |
Venera 8 | 27 March 1972 | Venus lander | [18][169][170] |
Apollo 16 | 16 April 1972 | Manned lunar landing | |
Apollo 17 | 7 December 1972 | Last manned lunar landing | |
Luna 21/Lunokhod 2 | 8 January 1973 | Lunar rover | [171] |
Pioneer 11 | 5 April 1973 | Jupiter flyby and First Saturn flyby | [168][172][173] |
Skylab | 14 May 1973 | First American space station | |
Explorer 49 (RAE-B) | 10 June 1973 | Lunar orbiter/radio astronomy | |
Mars 4 | 21 July 1973 | Mars flyby (attempted Mars orbiter) | |
Mars 5 | 25 July 1973 | Mars orbiter | |
Mars 6 | 5 August 1973 | Mars flyby and attempted lander (failed due to damage on Mars landing) | |
Mars 7 | 9 August 1973 | Mars flyby and attempted lander (missed Mars) | |
Mariner 10 | 3 November 1973 | Venus flyby and First Mercury flyby | [174][175][176] |
Luna 22 | 29 May 1974 | Lunar orbiter | [10][177] |
Luna 23 | 28 October 1974 | Attempted lunar sample return (failed due to damage on lunar landing) | [178] |
Helios-A | 10 December 1974 | Solar observations | |
Venera 9 | 8 June 1975 | First Venus orbiter and lander; First images from surface of Venus | [18][179][180][181] |
Venera 10 | 14 June 1975 | Venus orbiter and lander | [18][182][183][184] |
Viking 1 | 20 August 1975 | Mars orbiter and lander; First lander returning data and First pictures from Martian surface | |
Viking 2 | 9 September 1975 | Mars orbiter and lander | |
Helios-B | 15 January 1976 | Solar observations, closest solar approach (0.29 AU) (until 2019) | |
Luna 24 | 9 August 1976 | Lunar robotic sample return | [10][185] |
Voyager 2 | 20 August 1977 | Jupiter/Saturn/first Uranus/first Neptune flyby | |
Voyager 1 | 5 September 1977 | currently (2018) about 142 AU | |
Pioneer Venus 1 | 20 May 1978 | Venus orbiter | |
Pioneer Venus 2 | 8 August 1978 | Venus atmospheric probes | |
ISEE-3 | 12 August 1978 | Solar wind investigations; later redesignated International Cometary Explorer and performed Comet Giacobini-Zinner and Comet Halley flybys – First comet flyby | |
Venera 11 | 9 September 1978 | Venus flyby and lander | [18][186][187][188] |
Venera 12 | 14 September 1978 | Venus flyby and lander | [18][189][190][191] |
1980s
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Venera 13 | 30 October 1981 | Venus flyby and lander | [18][192][193][194] |
Venera 14 | 4 November 1981 | Venus flyby and lander | [18][195][196][197] |
Venera 15 | 2 June 1983 | Venus orbiter | [18][198][199] |
Venera 16 | 7 June 1983 | Venus orbiter | [18][200][201] |
Vega 1 | 15 December 1984 | Venus flyby, lander and first balloon; continued on to Comet Halley flyby | |
Vega 2 | 21 December 1984 | Venus flyby, lander and balloon; continued on to Comet Halley flyby | |
Sakigake | 8 January 1985 | Comet Halley flyby | [202][203] |
Giotto | 2 July 1985 | First close observation of comet (distance 596 kilometers), Comet Halley flyby | |
Suisei (Planet-A) | 18 August 1985 | Comet Halley flyby | |
Mir | 20 February 1986 | First modular space station (completion 1996) | |
Phobos 1 | 7 July 1988 | Attempted Mars orbiter/Phobos landers (contact lost) | |
Phobos 2 | 12 July 1988 | Mars orbiter/attempted Phobos landers (contact lost) | |
Magellan | 4 May 1989 | Venus orbiter | [204][205] |
Galileo | 18 October 1989 | Venus flyby, first Asteroid flyby, first Asteroid moon discovery, first Jupiter orbiter/atmospheric probe |
1990s
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Hiten (MUSES-A) | 24 January 1990 | Lunar flyby and orbiter | |
Hubble Space Telescope | 24 April 1990 | Orbital space telescope | |
Ulysses | 6 October 1990 | Solar polar orbiter | |
Yohkoh (Solar-A) | 30 August 1991 | Solar observations | |
Mars Observer | 25 September 1992 | Attempted Mars orbiter (contact lost) | |
Clementine | 25 January 1994 | Lunar orbiter/attempted asteroid flyby | |
WIND | 1 November 1994 | Solar wind observations | |
SOHO | 2 December 1995 | Solar observatory | [206] |
NEAR Shoemaker | 17 February 1996 | Eros orbiter, first near-Earth asteroid flyby, first asteroid orbit and first asteroid landing | |
Mars Global Surveyor | 7 November 1996 | Mars orbiter | |
Mars 96 | 16 November 1996 | Attempted Mars orbiter/landers (failed to escape Earth orbit) | |
Mars Pathfinder | 4 December 1996 | Mars lander and first successful planetary rover | |
ACE | 25 August 1997 | Solar wind and "space weather" observations | |
Cassini–Huygens | 15 October 1997 | First Saturn orbiter and first outer planet lander | |
AsiaSat 3/HGS-1 | 24 December 1997 | Lunar flyby | |
Lunar Prospector | 7 January 1998 | Lunar orbiter | |
Nozomi (also known as Planet-B) | 3 July 1998 | Attempted Mars orbiter (failed to enter Mars orbit) | |
Deep Space 1 (DS1) | 24 October 1998 | Asteroid and comet flyby | |
20 November 1998 | International Space Station (completed 2013) | ||
Mars Climate Orbiter | 11 December 1998 | Attempted Mars orbiter (orbit insertion failed) | |
Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2 (DS2) | 3 January 1999 | Attempted Mars lander/penetrators (contact lost) | |
Stardust | 7 February 1999 | First comet coma sample return – returned 15 January 2006 |
2000s
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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2001 Mars Odyssey | 7 April 2001 | Mars orbiter | |
Genesis | 8 August 2001 | First solar wind sample return | |
CONTOUR | 3 July 2002 | Attempted flyby of three comet nuclei (lost in space) | |
Hayabusa (MUSES-C) | 9 May 2003 | Asteroid lander and first sample return from asteroid | |
Mars Express/Beagle 2 | 1 June 2003 | Mars orbiter/lander (lander failure) | |
Mars Exploration Rover Spirit | 10 June 2003 | Mars rover | |
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity | 7 July 2003 | Mars rover | |
SMART-1 | 27 September 2003 | Lunar orbiter | |
Shenzhou 5 | 15 October 2003 | China's first manned Earth orbiter | |
Rosetta/Philae | 2 March 2004 | First comet orbiter and lander (Landed in November 2014) | |
MESSENGER | 3 August 2004 | First Mercury orbiter (Achieved orbit 18 March 2011) | |
Deep Impact | 12 January 2005 | First comet impact | |
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | 12 August 2005 | Mars orbiter | |
Venus Express | 9 November 2005 | Venus polar orbiter | |
New Horizons | 19 January 2006 | First Pluto/Charon flyby (on 14 July 2015) | [207] |
Hinode (Solar-B) | 22 September 2006 | Solar orbiter | |
STEREO | 26 October 2006 | Two spacecraft, solar orbiters | |
Phoenix | 4 August 2007 | Mars polar lander (Mars landing on 25 May 2008) | |
SELENE (Kaguya) | 14 September 2007 | Lunar orbiters | |
Dawn | 27 September 2007 | Asteroid Ceres and Vesta orbiter (Entered orbit around Vesta on 16 July 2011 and around Ceres on 6 March 2015) | |
Chang'e 1 | 24 October 2007 | Lunar orbiter | |
Chandrayaan-1 | 22 October 2008 | Lunar orbiter and impactor – Discovered water on the Moon | |
Herschel Space Observatory | 14 May 2009 | Infrared space telescope | |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS | 18 June 2009 | Lunar polar orbiter and lunar impactor | |
WISE(NEOWISE) | 14 December 2009 | Near-Earth object survey |
2010s
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Solar Dynamics Observatory | 11 February 2010 | Continuous solar monitoring | |
Akatsuki (Planet-C) | 20 May 2010 | Venus orbiter (orbit insertion failed in 2010 / successful orbit insertion on 7 December 2015) | |
PICARD | 15 June 2010 | Solar monitoring | |
Chang'e 2 | 1 October 2010 | Lunar orbiter, Asteroid 4179 Toutatis flyby | |
Juno | 5 August 2011 | Jupiter orbiter | |
GRAIL | 10 September 2011 | Two spacecraft, Lunar orbiters | |
Tiangong (Project 921-2) | 29 September 2011 | First Chinese space station | [208] |
Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 | 8 November 2011 | failed to escape Earth orbit | |
Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) | 26 November 2011 | large Mars 900 kg Rover (landed 6 August 2012) | |
Van Allen Probes (RBSP) | 30 August 2012 | Earth Van Allen radiation belts study | |
IRIS | 27 June 2013 | Solar observations | |
LADEE | 6 September 2013 | Lunar orbiter | |
Hisaki | 14 September 2013 | Planetary atmosphere observatory | |
Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) | 5 November 2013 | Mars orbiter | |
MAVEN | 18 November 2013 | Mars orbiter | |
Chang'e 3 | 1 December 2013 | First Chinese lunar lander and rover (first lander since Soviet Luna 24 in 1976) | |
Chang'e 5-T1 | 23 October 2014 | Lunar flyby/orbiter and Earth reentry probe; technology demonstration to prepare for Chang'e 5 mission | |
Hayabusa2 / MASCOT | 3 December 2014 | Asteroid lander and sample return, first asteroid rover | |
PROCYON | 3 December 2014 | Comet observer and failed asteroid flyby | |
Exploration Flight Test 1 | 5 December 2014 | Unmanned Earth orbital test of Orion interplanetary vehicle. | |
DSCOVR | 11 February 2015 | Solar observation | |
Astrosat | 28 September 2015 | Space observatory | |
LISA Pathfinder | 3 December 2015 | Test mission for proposed LISA gravitational wave observatory | |
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and EDM lander | 14 March 2016 | Mars orbiter and lander (lander failure) | |
OSIRIS-REx | 8 September 2016 | Asteroid sample return mission | |
InSight | 5 May 2018 | Mars lander | |
Parker Solar Probe | 12 August 2018 | Solar corona probe, closest solar approach (0.04 AU) | |
BepiColombo | 20 October 2018 | two Mercury orbiters | |
Chang'e 4 | 7 December 2018 | Lunar lander and rover, first landing on the lunar far side | |
SpaceIL Beresheet | 22 February 2019 | Private lunar lander, mission unsuccessful but impacts moon returning no pictures. |
Planned or scheduled
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Moon Express Lunar Scout | April 2019 | Private lunar lander | |
Chandrayaan-2 | (early 2019) | Lunar orbiter and rover | [209] |
Chang'e 5 | December 2019 | China's first lunar sample return mission (and first since Luna 24 in 1976) | |
SolO | February 2020 | Solar Orbiter, moving as close as 0.28 AU of the Sun | [210] |
Exploration Mission 1 | June 2020 | Unmanned lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System | |
ExoMars | 25 July 2020 | European carrier module, Russian lander and first non-American planetary rover, Rosalind Franklin rover | |
Mars Hope | July 2020 | Emirati Mars orbiter | [211][212] |
Mars Terahertz Microsatellite | July 2020 | Japanese Mars orbiter, first microsatellite to Mars | [213][214] |
Mars 2020 | July or August 2020 | Mars rover | [215] |
Mars Global Remote Sensing Orbiter and Small Rover | July or August 2020 | Mars orbiter, lander and rover | |
Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter | December 2020 | Korean lunar orbiter | |
Astrobotic Technology Mission One / AEM rover / Uni / EXA-AEC lunar orbiter | 2020 | Private lunar lander, multiple rovers, lunar orbiter | |
ispace M1 | 2020 | Private lunar orbiter | |
PTScientists | 2020 | Private lunar lander and rovers | |
James Webb Space Telescope | 30 March 2021 | Orbital space telescope | |
Luna 25 | May 2021 | First mission of the Luna-Glob Moon exploration programme, lunar south pole lander | |
Lucy | October 2021 | Flyby six Jupiter trojan asteroids | [216] |
Gaganyaan | December 2021 | First Indian manned orbiter | |
Aditya-L1 | 2021 | Solar observations | |
ispace M2 | 2021 | Private lunar lander and rover | |
SLIM | 2021 | Lunar lander and rover | |
DART / LICIA | 2021 | Kinetic impactor for 65803 Didymos to test asteroid deflection and flyby | [217] |
JUICE | June 2022 | Mission to explore Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa | [218] |
DESTINY+ | 2022 | Multiple flyby of a rock comet and its separated objects | |
Exploration Mission-2 | June 2023 | Manned lunar flyby and return to Earth | |
Psyche | October 2023 | Orbit the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche | [216] |
Luna 26 | 2023 | Lunar orbiter | |
Chang'e 7 | 2023 | Lunar orbiter and rover | [219] |
SpaceX dearMoon | 2023 | Manned circumlunar tourism mission | |
Luna 27 | 2024 | Lunar south pole lander and rover | |
Chang'e 6 | 2024 | Lunar sample return mission | |
Exploration Mission 3 | 2024 | Manned lunar orbiter and return to Earth | |
Blue Origin Blue Moon | 2024 | Private lunar south polar landing capable of delivering 4,500 kg | |
SpaceX BFR | 2024 | first human mission to Mars | |
MMX | 2024 | Phobos lander, sample return mission and Deimos flyby / Phobos rover | [220] |
Europa Lander | 2025 | Europa lander | |
Luna 28 | 2025 | Lunar south pole lander, rover, and sample return | |
Federation spacecraft | 2025 | manned lunar orbit | |
Europa Clipper | 2022–2025 | Europa moon orbiter | |
Venera-D | 2026 | Venus orbiter and lander | |
Intergelio-Zond | 2026 | Solar orbiter | [221] |
Chang'e 8 | 2028 | Lunar lander | |
(before 2030) | Mars sample return | [222] | |
(early 2030s) | Manned landing on the Moon | [223] | |
Mercury-P | 2031 | First Mercury lander | |
M1 | 2031 | Manned lunar landing | [224] |
M2 | 2032 | Manned lunar landing and rover | [224] |
M3 | 2033 | Manned lunar landing and cosmonauts will undertake long-distance trips on lunar rover | [224] |
M4 | 2034 | Manned lunar landing and beginning of building of a human colony | [224] |
M5 | 2035 | Manned lunar landing and completion of robotic lunar base | [224] |
2037 | First human mission to Mars by NASA | ||
2040–2060 | Manned phase of the Chinese Mars exploration program | [225] | |
2040–2060 | Manned phase of the Russian Mars exploration program | [226] |
See also
- Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
- List of missions to the Moon
- List of Solar System probes
- List of space telescopes
- New Frontiers program
- Out of the Cradle (book) - scientific speculation on future missions.
- Space Race
- Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes
- Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons
- Timeline of first orbital launches by country
- Timeline of space travel by nationality
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