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This is a list of interplanetary spacecraft that were launched, successes, proposals, failures and partial failures as well as cancelled missions.

Key

• Text in orange refers to proposed missions.
• Text in yellow refers to currently operational missions.
• Text in green refers to missions that were successful or successfully completed.
• Text in cyan refers to partially failed/successful missions.
• Text in red refers to failed missions.
• Text in blue refers to cancelled missions.

Heliocentric

Successes

* Parker Solar Probe

• The Parker Solar Probe aims to study the atmosphere, corona, of the sun up close..

Mercury

• MESSENGER
• status: success
• the mission was a success. It was sent for an orbital mission in the shrinking space boulder.
• Mercury - Mariner 10
• status: success
• the mission was also an success. It was sent to study mercury.
• Mercury -BepiColombo
• status: on its way
• it will arrive at mercury in 2025. Being the 2nd spacecraft to orbit the boulder.
• Venus - Pioneer 1
• status: success
• pioneer successfuly orbited venus for years
• Venus - Pioneer 2
• status: success
• the probe successfully violated venus and the rules of space by landing on venus.
• Venus - Tyazhely Sputnik
• status: failed
• The probe went to heaven instead of venus because of a launch failure.
• Venus - Venera 1
• status: turned into an 'ayló'chaxnim asteroid
• the probe lost communication.
• Venus - Mariner 1
• status: Launch Failure
• the probe went el pepe ete sech during an earth assist.
• Venus - 2MV1N1
• status: betrayed by the upper stage
• it died because never left LEO
• Venus - Mariner 2
• status: success
• flew by venus, then flew by another idiot.
• Venus - 2MV1N2
• status: Betrayed by the upper stage
• like its old brother. The upper stage betrayed him.
• Venus - Kosmos 27
• status: Betrayed by the upper stage
• LEO also betrayed kosmos 27 because cold war because USSR bad.
• Venus - Zond 1
• status: Apollo'd
• the probe imediatelly turned into an apollo asteroid in route to venus.
• Earth - Apollo-12
• status: observed
• earth had its image taken during the visit to the moon, together with neil armstrong, and the crewd on their way to the moon.
• Luna (The Moon) - Apollo-12
• status: success
• we landed on the moon in that same day.
• 101955 Bennu - OSIRIS-REx
• status: success
• the mission was also sucessful. The spacecraft almost sank on the asteroid during the sample collection.
• 162173 Ryugu - Hayabusa2
• status: success
• hayabusa successfully orbited ryugu for years until the sample collection. Fortunately ryugu had its surface anchored because the admins forgot to anchor bennu's surface while scripting. It shot ryugu two times in the head because yes.
• 4179 Toutatis - Chang'e 2
• status: success
• the chinese spacecraft flew by toutatis after quitting luna.
• 25143 Itokawa - Hayabusa
• status: success
• itokawa also had its surface anchored, which lead to an 100% safe sample collection.
• 9969 Braille - Deep Space 2
• status: success
• it failed miserably in taking a full hd 4k image of braille
• 2001 SN263 - Aster
• status: In-Route
• its an orbiter mission to the asteroid. From brazil. Nothing too interesting.
• 469219 Kamo'oalewa - Tianwen-2
• status: To be launched
• the spacecraft is going to be launched in 2026. During the time it visits the co-orbital asteroid. It will orbit kamo'oalewa for a few years, and it will collect a 100g sample from the tiny asteroid, and send it back to earth.
• 433 Eros - NEAR
• status: NEAR.exe stopped working
• eros turned into the first asteroid to be landed and orbited in the 2000s.
• 1036 Ganymed - NEAR
• status: Dodged
• NEAR changed targets from ganymed to eros. Giving a huge backstab at ganymed.
• 99942 Apophis - OSIRIS-REx
• status: In-Route
• OSIRIS quit bennu for a reason. And it was to flyby this pepe.
• 3200 Phaethon - DESTINY+
• its gonna orbit phaethon for years until it fucking dies on the sun
• 65803 Didymos - DART
• status: Went kamikaze mode
• DART crashed on dimorphos, it almost turned it into a comet.
• remindal: i am not including the rover missions here.
• Mars - Viking 1 & 2
• status: success
• The viking orbiters did their thing on the red planet. I M not explaining the rest.
• Phobos - Viking 1 & 2
• status: Success
• phobos flyby was successful. I am not reading allat
• Deimos - Hope
• status: Success
• it is still gonna end its mission in an distant future. Jm not gonna read the article
• Ceres - Dawn
• status: Success
• the spacecraft orbited the dwarf planet for years until it quit and went to vesta (dawn ended up like matpat)
• Pallas - Athena SmallSat
• status: Cancelled because tilt
• athena was a smolsat mission to pallas. But because of pallas' inclination and the mission being an unfinished payload to psyche. They sent a huge salty backstab to pallas.
• Vesta - Dawn
• status: Goodbye Internet
• after orbiting vesta, it retired as quick as matpat.
• 21 Lutetia - Rosetta
• status: Success
• rosetta flew by lutetia during its way to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. I rlly thought lutetia would look liek de light curv :(
• 2867 Steins - Rosetta
• status: Success
• rosetta flew by the huge diamond during its way to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
• 152830 Dinkinesh-Selam - Lucy
• status: Success
• lucy flew by dinkinesh in 2023. Discovering the 1st ever peanut orbiting an asteroid.
• 5535 Annefrank - Stardust/NExT
• status: Success
• stardust flew by annefrank on its way to comet wild 2. I wonder why they named a slug shaped asteroid after someone who died in the holocaust...
• 223 Rosa - JUICE
• status: Late
• JUICE is going to flyby rosa on its way to jupiter.
• 52246 Donaldjohanson - Lucy
• status: In-Route
• lucy will flyby donaldjohanson by 2025 or 2026.
• 269 Justitia - M.B.R Explorer
• status: To be launched
• MBR will land on justitia to end its mission.
• 623 Chimaera - M.B.R Explorer
• status: To be launched
• status: To be launched
• chimaera is going to be visited by M.B.R Explorer.
• 10253 Westerwald - M.B.R Explorer
• M.B.R explorer will flyby westerwald in 2026-2027
• 132524 APL - New Horizons
• status: GET OUT OF MY WAY
• APL had an accidental visit in 2006-2008 by new horizons, unfortunately it never was an worthy target for new horizons...
• 253 Mathilde - NEAR
• status: Success
• NEAR flew by mathilde in the 90s or 80s. And discovering that mathilde was brutally hit by large and small asteroids.
• 16 Psyche - Psyche
• status: In-Route
• psyche will orbit the golden potato for years. Until it gets bored.
• 21900 Orus - Lucy
• status: In-Route
• orus is lucy's final target. The flyby will happen in 2028-2027. After that, lucy finally will end its mission.
• 617 Patroclus-Menoetius - Lucy
• status: In-Route
• lucy will flyby patroclus and menoetius in 2026-2027 in route to polymele, eurybates, orus, and the long asteroid leucus
• 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup - Giotto
• status: success
• after the encounter with halley's comet in 1986. Giotto flew by grigg-skjellerup after it lost its camera on halley's comet, resulting on comet 26p never getting a full image from giotto. Later giotto got decomissioned and turned into a trojan.
• 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko - Rosetta
• status: Success
• after flying by lutetia and steins, rosetta finally arrived at the space broccoli churyumov-,gerasimenko. It orbited the comet for several years, even deploying its little brother philae on the comet's surface. Rosetta discovered an temporary minimoon that was nicknamed "churymoon" bacause of the object it orbited. Later in 2016, rosetta finally ended its mission by crashing into churyumov-gerasimenko's surface.
• 103P/Hartley 2 - Deep Impact
• status: Success
• deep impact flew by hartley, during the time it was called "EPOXI", it was riscovered that the ejects from hartley 2 were made of CO2 gas.
• 9P/Tempel - Deep Impact
• status: Went kamikaze mode
• after the visit to comet hartley 2. Deep impact finally reached its final destination, tempel 1. Where it crashed on the comet's surface. And making it eject white comet material (its not what youre thinking, its just water and CO2 gas)
• 243 Ida & Dactyl - Galileo
• status: Success
• the ida flyby is historical, and it was all because of dactyl. And ida's anormal shape that looks like something else...
• 951 Gaspra - Galileo
• status: Success
• the gaspra flyby was performed after the visit to ida. And somehow, gaspra had this weird goblin shark shape of his...
• 81P/Wild 2 - Stardust/NExT
• status: success
• during the flyby. Stardust collected dust samples from wild 2's tail. Orbited the comets for a few years until its final destination.
• 9P/Tempel - Stardust/NExT
• tempel was stardust's final target. Stardust was sent to explore the crater left on tempel 1 after deep impact hit the comet. Its fuel was wasted during the flyby.
• 5D/Brorsen (lost) - observatories around the world
• status: failed
• brorsen was lost after the close approach it gave to jupiter. Possibly resulting in the comet desintegrating during perihelion... no observatories or space surveys were able to find out were was comet brorsen......
• 311P/PANSTARRS - Tianwen-2
• status: To be launched
• tianwen 2 is going to orbit this main belt comet and fire dynamites at it for apparently no reason. It will end its mission on the comet after the end of an exploration
• Jupiter - Galileo
• status: success
• galileo successfully orbited jupiter for years, flew by the galilean moons, and observed amalthea, thebe, adrastea, and metis on its path to victory. In 2006, galileo crashed into jupiter after years of exploration
• Jupiter - Juno
• it's been 7 years juno have been studying jupiter. It successfully violated the gas giant by breaking in and entering its atmosphere. No damages were received during the exploration.
• Galilean moons - Juno
• juno flew by every single galilean moon. But never observed or flew by the smaller moons.
• Jupiter voyagers and the mariner program
• All of them successfully flew by jupiter. Eventually the voyagers flew by the galilean moons, and took photos of amalthea and thebe at their finest. And then they quit the solar system.
• Galilean moons - JUICE
• status: on its way
• JUICE will flyby the galilean moons to find if theres something interesting on them. And it might probably include himalia, due to its distance from jupiter.
• Europa - Europa Clipper
• status: To be launched
• this probe is an submarine that will drill through the icy surface of europa, and going into an huge dive on its oceans. It might have many creatures living there we dont know yat, and this will not affect or be very bad to the fishing economy still.
• Io - Juno
• status: Almost there
• juno will study io for a few years until it gets bored
• Himalia - Cassini
• status: Observed
• during an jupiter assist. Cassini spotted himalia on its finest. And after that, cassini finally quit jupiter.
• Elara - New Horizons
• status: Observed
• on its way to pluto. New horizons had to get an jupiter assist. And it captured elara at its finest. Somehow it looks like a pizza.
• Saturn - Cassini
• status: Success
• cassini operated on saturn for years until 2017, the year it desintegrated in the planet's atmosphere...
• Moons of Saturn (except titan and irregular moons) - Cassini
• status: success
• cassini successfully flew by mimas, enceladus, tethys, dione, rhea, iapetus, phoebe, pan, prometheus, epimetheus, and other inner moons during its time on the crash and on the start of the mission.
• Titan - Cassini & Huygens
• huygens is the first ever object to land on titan. It was deployed by cassini during the titan flyby.
• Saturn's Moonlets - Cassini
• status: Observed
• all of them were observed by cassini during its way to crash on saturn. The most popular of them all were peggy and S/2009 S1. Due to peggy being an baby moon of saturn, and S/2009 S1 being an extremely close moonlet to saturn. Santos-Dumont, bleriot, and earhart were also observed by the distortion they caused on saturn's rings, on a propeller shape.
• Uranus - Voyager 1 & 2
• status: S
• uccess
• voyager did an good job on imaging uranus and its 6 major moons. Puck, mab, and other smaller moons were discovered during images.
• Moons of Uranus - Voyager 2
• status: Success
• all of uranus' major and small inner moons were imaged during its time on uranus. Miranda was the one that had more popularity, due to it being round and deformed.
• Neptune - Voyager 1 & 2
• status: Success
• voyager 1 & 2 made timelapses of neptune during its flyby. And yes. Voyager 2 captured triton during one of the images.
• Triton and Proteus - Voyager 1 & 2
• status: Success
• The voyagers successfully flew by both triton and proteus. Eventually discovering an huge crater on proteus, and triton's pastel colors
• note: there arent too much objects in the kuiper belt that are valuable targets for missions.
• 10199 Chariklo
• - Camilla
• status: To be launched
• camilla is still going to be launched on the 2030s or 2026. Camilla is going to investigate chariklo's rings to confirm the existence of shepherd moons on its rings.
• 2060 Chiron and Schwassmann-wachmann 1 - Centaurus
• status: To be launched
• this mission consists of an flyby to comet schwassmann-wachmann and chiron for a bit of knowledge of the two, and figuring out if chiron is a ringed comet or not.
• Pluto and Charon - New Horizons
• status: success
• charon was the first that got it flyby. During this time, it was discovered about charon's brown spot, and the fact charon is kinda distorted. Pluto was the second one to have the flyby. But since pluto is the special kid. Bew horizons landed on pluto. And in 2016-2018, it finally quit the poor child to visit an literal snowman
• Styx Nix Kerberos & Hydra - New Horizons
• status: observed
• after pluto's smaller moons were discovered. New horizons disnt missed a beat on observing them.
• 66652 Borasisi - New Horizons 2
• status: Organ donation
• borasisi and pabu were originally going to have an flyby of new horizons 2. But it donated its organs to the government
• Triton’s Binary Partner(?) - New Horizons 2
• status: Organ donation
• triton was considered a target for the new horizons 2 mission, so they could finally figure out if the mf above me existed or not.
• 2002 UX₂₅ - New Horizons 2
• status: organ donation
• 2002 UX25 was the valuable target for the mission. But it couldnt been flew by. Guess why? Because new horizons 2 donated its vital organs to the governme-
• 47171 Lempo–Hiisi - New Horizons 2
• status: Organ donation
• lempo and hiisi were supposed to have an flyby performed by new horizons 2. An successor of new horizons, but infortunately. It donated its organs to the government. Fortunately there are other missions to this irregular binary system with 3 members.
• 88611 Teharonhiawako(?) New Horizons 2
• status: Organ donation
• new horizons 2 could have arranget from 3 to 4 TNOs. So teharonhawako or orcus would have been an valuable target for the mission. But what happened to it? It donated its or-
• Arrokoth - New Horizons
• status: Success
• after quitting the poor child. New horizons flew by this snowman above me. Nobody would have expected it to be skinny.
• Varda(?) - New Horizons
• status: Probably a valuable target
• After the new horizons extension. Varda, makemake, haumea, and other TNOs might be valuable targets for the brawl. Just forget we will reach the scattered disk. We never will-
• Makemake(?) - New horizons
• status: Probably a valuable target
• it might be possible that new horizons will flyby makemake and orther TNOs near arrokoth after the extension. This also counts to makemake.
• Haumea(?) - New Horizons
• status: Probably a valuable target
• haumea might also want to be considered a valuable target for new horizons' extension. Due to arrokoth's distance from this huge salty stupid ringed egg.
• Varuna(?) New Horizons
• status: Probably a valuable target
• at this point, anything thats tied with arrokoth might actually be valuable. Varda, varuna, haumea, and makemake are tied together at their finest, which might result int an epic investigation on the dwarves.
• Halley's Comet - Giotto
• status: Success
• giotto was the first ever probe to take pictures of halley at its closest point. It also counts to vega 1 & 2. But giotto is way more popular than both. In the halley's comet flyby. Giotto lost its camera during an gravitational pull, or an accidental hit on a cliff in the comet nucleus.
• Halley's Comet - Vega 1 & 2
• status: Success
• both vega 1 & 2 were more successful in taking pictures of halley's comet ati its finest. Eventually exposing its nucleus during the flybys.
• Quaoar Interstellar Express/Shensuo
• status: To be launched
• after flying by neptune and triton, shensuo will go beyond. And explore the ringed dwarf planet quaoar.
• interstellar missions:
• Pōwehi - EHT
• in 2019, we were finally surprised by the first black hole evre imaged. Pōwehi aka M87
• Sagittarius A* - EHT
• when 2022 arrived. We finally got an avtual picture of our central black hole. And mother/father of the milky way sagittarius A*.
• Proxima Centauri System - Proxima Centauri Swarm Project (PCSP
• this project is going to start soon. This mission is headed towards the closest star from the earth, proxima centauri. Together with the 3 planets orbiting it, toliman, and rigil kentaurus. They will all be visited by the swarm at the end of the 21st century. This swarm consists of 24-40 probes to orbit every planet/star in that system.