Timeline of Solar System exploration

This article is about listing events in a comprehensive list. For a timeline of first-ever achievements, see Timeline of space exploration.

This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System 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.^[vague]

Charted timeline of Solar System exploration through December 2014

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).

1950s

Sputnik 1 – First Earth orbiter

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
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; 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 extraterrestrial impact and lunar impact, First artificial object on Moon	[10][13]
Luna 3	4 October 1959	Lunar flyby; First images of another celestial body taken from space, most notably, the far side of Moon	[10][14]

1960s

Vostok 1 – First crewed Earth orbiter

Mariner 2 – First successful Venus flyby

Mariner 4 – First successful Mars flyby

Luna 9 – First successful lunar lander

Zond 5 – First lunar flyby and return to Earth, first terrestrials to circle the Moon

Apollo 8 – First crewed lunar orbiter

Apollo 11 – First crewed lunar landing

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
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 crewed Earth orbiter (Yuri Gagarin)	[20][21]
Ranger 1	23 August 1961	Attempted lunar test flight (failed to leave Earth orbit)	[22][23][24]
Ranger 2	18 November 1961	Attempted lunar test flight (failed to leave Earth orbit)	[24][25][26]
Ranger 3	26 January 1962	Attempted lunar impact (missed Moon)	[24][27][28]
Ranger 4	23 April 1962	Lunar impact (but unintentionally became the first spacecraft to hit the lunar farside and returned no data)	[24][29][30][31]
Mariner 2	27 August 1962	First successful planetary encounter, First successful Venus flyby	[32][33][34]
Ranger 5	18 October 1962	Attempted lunar impact (missed Moon)	[24][35][36]
Mars 1	1 November 1962	First probe to Mars: flyby (contact lost)	[37][38]
Luna 4	2 April 1963	Attempted lunar lander (missed Moon)	[39][40]
Cosmos 21	11 November 1963	Attempted Venera test flight?	[41]
Ranger 6	30 January 1964	Lunar impact (cameras failed)	[42][43]
Zond 1	2 April 1964	Venus flyby (contact lost)	[44][45][46]
Ranger 7	28 July 1964	Lunar impact (success)	[47][48][49]
Voskhod 1	12 October 1964	First orbiter with multimember crew	[50][51]
Mariner 3	5 November 1964	Attempted Mars flyby (failed to attain correct trajectory)	[52][53]
Mariner 4	28 November 1964	First successful Mars flyby (taking the first close-up image of another planet)[54]	[55][56]
Zond 2	30 November 1964	Mars flyby (contact lost)	[46][57][58]
Ranger 8	17 February 1965	Lunar impact	[59][60]
Voskhod 2	18 March 1965	First space walk, by Alexei Leonov	[51][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	[46][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 atmosphere and 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 extraterrestrial lander and lunar lander	[10][77]
Luna 10	31 March 1966	First extraterrestrial orbiter (except heliocentric) and first lunar orbiter	[78]
Surveyor 1	30 May 1966	Lunar lander	[79][80][81]
Explorer 33	1 July 1966	Attempted lunar orbiter (failed to attain lunar orbit)	[82][83]
Lunar Orbiter 1	10 August 1966	Lunar orbiter	[84][85][86]
Pioneer 7	17 August 1966	"Space weather" observations	[76][87][88]
Luna 11	24 August 1966	Lunar orbiter	[89]
Surveyor 2	20 September 1966	Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon)	[90][91]
Luna 12	22 October 1966	Lunar orbiter	[92]
Lunar Orbiter 2	6 November 1966	Lunar orbiter	[93][94]
Luna 13	21 December 1966	Lunar lander	[95]
Lunar Orbiter 3	5 February 1967	Lunar orbiter	[96][97]
Surveyor 3	17 April 1967	Lunar lander	[98][99]
Lunar Orbiter 4	4 May 1967	Lunar orbiter	[100][101]
Venera 4	12 June 1967	First functioning extraterrestrial atmospheric probe (Venus)	[18][102]
Mariner 5	14 June 1967	Venus flyby	[103][104]
Surveyor 4	14 July 1967	Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon)	[105][106]
Explorer 35 (IMP-E)	19 July 1967	Lunar orbiter	[107]
Lunar Orbiter 5	1 August 1967	Lunar orbiter	[86][108][109]
Surveyor 5	8 September 1967	Lunar lander	[110][111]
Surveyor 6	7 November 1967	Lunar lander, first lift-off from an extraterrestrial body	[80][112][113]
Apollo 4	9 November 1967	Lunar programme test flight in Earth orbit (uncrewed)	[114]
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 in Earth orbit (uncrewed)	[119][120]
Zond 4	2 March 1968	Lunar programme test flight out of Earth orbit (uncrewed)	[46][121][122][123]
Luna 14	7 April 1968	Lunar orbiter	[124]
Zond 5	14 September 1968	First lunar flyby and return to Earth, first life forms to circle the Moon	[46][125][126][127][128]
Apollo 7	11 October 1968	Lunar programme test flight in Earth orbit (crewed)	[129][130]
Pioneer 9	8 November 1968	"Space weather" observations	[76][131][132]
Zond 6	10 November 1968	Lunar flyby and return to Earth	[46][133][134]
Apollo 8	21 December 1968	First crewed spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, first crewed lunar orbiter	[130][135][136]
Venera 5	5 January 1969	Venus atmospheric probe	[18][137]
Venera 6	10 January 1969	Venus atmospheric probe	[18][138]
Mariner 6	25 February 1969	Mars flyby	[139][140]
Apollo 9	3 March 1969	Crewed lunar lander (LEM) flight test in Earth orbit	[130][141]
Mariner 7	27 March 1969	Mars flyby	[142][143]
Apollo 10	18 May 1969	Crewed lunar orbiter	[130][144][145]
Luna 15	13 July 1969	Second attempted lunar sample return	[146][147]
Apollo 11	16 July 1969	First crewed lunar landing and first successful sample return mission	[148][149][150][151][152]
Zond 7	7 August 1969	Lunar flyby and return to Earth	[46][153][154]
Apollo 12	14 November 1969	Crewed lunar landing	[155][156][157]

1970s

Mars 3 – First Mars lander

Pioneer 10 – First Jupiter flyby

Mariner 10 – First Mercury flyby

Voyager 2 – First Uranus/first Neptune flyby

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
Apollo 13	11 April 1970	Crewed lunar flyby and return to Earth (crewed lunar landing aborted). Farthest from Earth a human has gone (401,056 km)	[158][159][160][161]
Venera 7	17 August 1970	First Venus lander and the first spacecraft to "soft" land on another planet (with some data returned from the surface)	[18][162][163]
Luna 16	12 September 1970	First robotic lunar sample return	[10][164]
Zond 8	20 October 1970	Lunar flyby and return to Earth	[46][165][166]
Luna 17/Lunokhod 1	10 November 1970	First remote controlled rover	[10][167]
Apollo 14	31 January 1971	Crewed lunar landing	[168][169][170]
Salyut 1	19 April 1971	First space station	[171][172]
Mars 2	19 May 1971	First Mars impact, Mars orbiter and attempted lander; First rover (Prop-M) sent to another planet (Mars)	[173][174][175][176][177]
Mars 3	28 May 1971	Mars orbiter (arrived after Mariner 9); First Mars lander (first image taken from the surface of another planet, though the received image did not show anything); First rover (Prop-M) to be landed but not deployed on another planet (Mars)	[178][179][180][181][182]
Mariner 9	30 May 1971	First to orbit another planet (Mars)	[183][184]
Apollo 15	26 July 1971	Crewed lunar landing; First crewed lunar rover	[130][185][186][187]
Luna 18	2 September 1971	Attempted lunar sample return (crashed into Moon)	[188][189]
Luna 19	28 September 1971	Lunar orbiter	[190]
Luna 20	14 February 1972	Lunar robotic sample return	[191]
Pioneer 10	3 March 1972	First Jupiter flyby	[192][193][75]
Venera 8	27 March 1972	Venus lander	[18][194][195]
Apollo 16	16 April 1972	Crewed lunar landing	[196][197][198]
Apollo 17	7 December 1972	Last crewed lunar landing	[199][200][201][202]
Luna 21/Lunokhod 2	8 January 1973	Lunar rover	[203]
Pioneer 11	5 April 1973	Jupiter flyby and First Saturn flyby	[75][204][205]
Explorer 49 (RAE-B)	10 June 1973	Lunar orbiter/radio astronomy	[206][207]
Mars 4	21 July 1973	Mars flyby (attempted Mars orbiter)	[208][209]
Mars 5	25 July 1973	Mars orbiter	[210][211]
Mars 6	5 August 1973	Mars flyby and attempted lander (failed due to damage on Mars landing)	[212][213]
Mars 7	9 August 1973	Mars flyby and attempted lander (missed Mars)	[214][215]
Mariner 10	3 November 1973	Lunar and Venus flybys in addition to the First Mercury flyby	[216][217][218][219]
Luna 22	29 May 1974	Lunar orbiter	[10][220]
Luna 23	28 October 1974	Attempted lunar sample return (failed due to damage on lunar landing)	[221]
Helios-A	10 December 1974	Solar observations	[222][223]
Venera 9	8 June 1975	First Venus orbiter and lander; First successful images from the surface of another planet (Venus)	[18][224][225][226]
Venera 10	14 June 1975	Venus orbiter and lander	[18][227][228][229]
Viking 1	20 August 1975	Mars orbiter and lander; First clear pictures from Martian surface	[230][231][232][233]
Viking 2	9 September 1975	Mars orbiter and lander	[233][234][235][236]
Helios-B	15 January 1976	Solar observations	[237][238]
Luna 24	9 August 1976	Lunar robotic sample return	[10][239]
Voyager 2	20 August 1977	Jupiter/Saturn/first Uranus/first Neptune flyby	[240][241][242]
Voyager 1	5 September 1977	Jupiter/Saturn flyby, first to exit the heliosphere	[242][243][244]
Pioneer Venus 1	20 May 1978	Venus orbiter	[245][246]
Pioneer Venus 2	8 August 1978	Venus atmospheric probes	[247][248]
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	[249][250][251]
Venera 11	9 September 1978	Venus flyby and lander	[18][252][253][254]
Venera 12	14 September 1978	Venus flyby and lander	[18][255][256][257]

1980s

Galileo – Mission to Jupiter

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
Venera 13	30 October 1981	Venus flyby and lander. First recording of sound on another planet.	[18][258][259][260]
Venera 14	4 November 1981	Venus flyby and lander	[18][261][262][263]
Venera 15	2 June 1983	Venus orbiter	[18][264][265]
Venera 16	7 June 1983	Venus orbiter	[18][266][267]
Vega 1	15 December 1984	Venus flyby, lander and first extraterrestrial aircraft (aerostat balloon); continued on to Comet Halley flyby	[268][269][270][271][272]
Vega 2	21 December 1984	Venus flyby, lander and balloon; continued on to Comet Halley flyby	[272][273][274][275][276]
Sakigake	8 January 1985	Comet Halley flyby	[277][278]
Giotto	2 July 1985	First close observation of comet (distance 596 kilometers), Comet Halley flyby	[279][280][281]
Suisei (Planet-A)	18 August 1985	Comet Halley flyby	[282][283]
Mir	19 February 1986	First modular space station (operational 1986–2000; final module added 1996)	[284][285][286]
Phobos 1	7 July 1988	Attempted Mars orbiter/Phobos landers (contact lost)	[287][288]
Phobos 2	12 July 1988	Mars orbiter/attempted Phobos landers (contact lost)	[289][290]
Magellan	4 May 1989	Venus orbiter	[291][292]
Galileo	18 October 1989	Venus flyby, first Asteroid flyby (Gaspra), first Asteroid moon discovery (Dactyl), first Jupiter orbiter, first Jupiter atmospheric probe	[293][294][295][296]

1990s

Mars Pathfinder – Mars lander and the first successful Mars rover, Sojourner

Cassini–Huygens – First Saturn orbiter and first Titan lander

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
Hiten (MUSES-A)	24 January 1990	Lunar flyby and orbiter	[297][298]
Hubble Space Telescope	24 April 1990	Orbital space telescope (operational since 1990[needs update])	[299][300][301]
Ulysses	6 October 1990	Solar polar orbiter	[302][303][304]
Yohkoh (Solar-A)	30 August 1991	Solar observations (1991–2001)	[305][306]
Mars Observer	25 September 1992	Attempted Mars orbiter (contact lost)	[307][308]
Clementine	25 January 1994	Lunar orbiter/attempted asteroid flyby (contact lost)	[309][310][311]
WIND	1 November 1994	Solar wind observations	[312][313]
SOHO	2 December 1995	Solar observatory (operational since 1996[needs update])	[314][315][316]
NEAR Shoemaker	17 February 1996	Eros orbiter, first near-Earth asteroid flyby, first asteroid orbit and first asteroid landing	[317][318][319]
Mars Global Surveyor	7 November 1996	Mars orbiter	[320][321]
Mars 96	16 November 1996	Attempted Mars orbiter/landers (failed to escape Earth orbit)	[322][323]
Mars Pathfinder	4 December 1996	Mars lander and first successful planetary rover	[324][325][326]
ACE	25 August 1997	Solar wind and "space weather" observations (operational since 1998[needs update])	[327][328]
Cassini–Huygens	15 October 1997	First Saturn orbiter and first outer planet moon lander (on Titan)	[329][330][331][332][333]
Lunar Prospector	7 January 1998	Lunar orbiter	[334][335]
Nozomi (Planet-B)	3 July 1998	Attempted Mars orbiter (failed to enter Mars orbit)	[336][337]
Deep Space 1 (DS1)	24 October 1998	Asteroid and comet flyby	[338][339]
ISS	20 November 1998	International space station	[340][341]
Mars Climate Orbiter	11 December 1998	Attempted Mars orbiter (orbit insertion failed; entered atmosphere and was destroyed)	[342][343]
Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2 (DS2)	3 January 1999	Attempted Mars lander/penetrators (contact lost)	[344][345][346]
Stardust	7 February 1999	First comet coma sample return (returned 15 January 2006)	[347][348][349]

2000s

Mars Express/Beagle 2 – First planetary mission by the ESA

MESSENGER – First Mercury orbiter

Chandrayaan-1 – Water Around Fresh Moon Crater

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
2001 Mars Odyssey	7 April 2001	Mars orbiter	[350][351]
Genesis	8 August 2001	First solar wind sample return	[352][353][354][355]
CONTOUR	3 July 2002	Attempted flyby of comet nuclei (Encke, Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and optionally a third one; lost in space)	[356][357]
Hayabusa (MUSES-C)	9 May 2003	Asteroid lander and first sample return from asteroid	[358][359][360]
Mars Express/Beagle 2	2 June 2003	Mars orbiter/attempted lander (lander failure)	[361][362][363][364]
Mars Exploration Rover Spirit	10 June 2003	Mars rover	[365][366]
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity	8 July 2003	Mars rover	[367][368]
SMART-1	27 September 2003	Lunar orbiter	[369][370]
Rosetta/Philae	2 March 2004	Asteroid Šteins and Lutetia flybys; first comet orbiter and lander (Landed in November 2014)	[371][372][373][374]
MESSENGER	3 August 2004	First Mercury orbiter (Achieved orbit 18 March 2011)	[375][376][377]
Deep Impact	12 January 2005	Comet flyby and impact	[378][379][380][381]
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter	12 August 2005	Mars orbiter	[382][383]
Venus Express	9 November 2005	Venus polar orbiter	[384][385]
New Horizons	19 January 2006	First Pluto/Charon flyby (on 14 July 2015); continued on to 486958 Arrokoth flyby (on 1 January 2019)	[386][387][388][389]
Hinode (Solar-B)	22 September 2006	Solar orbiter	[390][391]
STEREO	26 October 2006	Two spacecraft, solar orbiters	[392][393][394]
Phoenix	4 August 2007	Mars polar lander (Mars landing on 25 May 2008)	[395][396]
SELENE (Kaguya)	14 September 2007	Lunar orbiters	[397][398][399][400]
Dawn	27 September 2007	Asteroid Ceres and Vesta orbiter (Entered orbit around Vesta on 16 July 2011 and around Ceres on 6 March 2015)	[401][402][403]
Chang'e 1	24 October 2007	Lunar orbiter	[404][405][406]
Chandrayaan-1	22 October 2008	Lunar orbiter and impactor; discovered water on the Moon	[407][408][409]
Herschel Space Observatory	14 May 2009	Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L2 Lagrange point	[410][411]
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS	18 June 2009	Lunar polar orbiter and lunar impactor	[412][413][414][415]
WISE (NEOWISE)	14 December 2009	Infrared survey of celestial sky (WISE mission); later Near-Earth object survey (NEOWISE mission)	[416][417][418]

2010s

Mars Science Laboratory – Mars lander and large rover

Mangalyaan – First Indian Mars orbiter

Trace Gas Orbiter – ESA/Roscosmos Mars orbiter

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
Solar Dynamics Observatory	11 February 2010	Continuous solar monitoring	[419][420]
Akatsuki (Planet-C)	20 May 2010	Venus orbiter (orbit insertion failed in 2010 / successful orbit insertion on 7 December 2015)	[421][422][423]
PICARD	15 June 2010	Solar monitoring	[424][425]
Chang'e 2	1 October 2010	Lunar orbiter, asteroid 4179 Toutatis flyby	[406][426][427]
Juno	5 August 2011	Jupiter orbiter	[428][429]
GRAIL	10 September 2011	Two spacecraft, Lunar orbiters	[430][431][432]
Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1	8 November 2011	Attempted Phobos sample return and Mars orbiter, respectively; both failed to escape Earth orbit	[433][434]
Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity rover)	26 November 2011	Mars rover (landed 6 August 2012)	[435][436]
Van Allen Probes (RBSP)	30 August 2012	Earth Van Allen radiation belts study	[437][438][439]
IRIS	28 June 2013	Solar observations	[440]
LADEE	7 September 2013	Lunar orbiter	[441][442]
Hisaki	14 September 2013	Planetary atmosphere observatory	[443]
Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan)	5 November 2013	Mars orbiter	[444][445][446]
MAVEN	18 November 2013	Mars orbiter	[447][448]
Chang'e 3	1 December 2013	Lunar lander and rover (first lander since Soviet Luna 24 in 1976)	[406][449][450][451]
Chang'e 5-T1	23 October 2014	Circumlunar mission and Earth reentry; technology demonstration to prepare for Chang'e 5 mission	[452]
Hayabusa2 / MASCOT	3 December 2014	Asteroid lander and sample return (sample returned 5 December 2020), first asteroid rover	[360][453][454]
PROCYON	3 December 2014	Comet observer and attempted asteroid flyby (engine failure)	[455]
DSCOVR	11 February 2015	Solar observation	[456][457]
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and EDM lander	14 March 2016	Mars orbiter and attempted lander (lander failure)	[458][459]
OSIRIS-REx	8 September 2016	Asteroid sample return mission (sample returned 24 September 2023[needs update])	[460][461]
InSight	5 May 2018	Mars lander	[462][463]
Queqiao	20 May 2018	Relay satellite for Chang'e 4 in Halo orbit around Earth–Moon L2 Lagrange point	[464]
Parker Solar Probe	12 August 2018	Solar corona probe, closest solar approach (0.04 AU)	[465][466]
BepiColombo	19 October 2018	Two Mercury orbiters (orbit insertion planned in December 2025)	[467][468]
Chang'e 4	7 December 2018	Lunar lander and rover, first landing on the lunar far side	[406][469][470]
Beresheet	22 February 2019	Attempted lunar lander (crashed into Moon)	[471][472]
Chandrayaan-2	22 July 2019	Lunar orbiter; attempted lander and rover (contact lost during final stage of descent)	[473][474]

2020s

NASA's Perseverance rover

Mission name	Launch date	Description	Ref(s)
Solar Orbiter	10 February 2020	Sun-observing satellite	[475][476][477]
Mars Hope	19 July 2020	Mars orbiter	[478]
Tianwen-1 (Zhurong rover)	23 July 2020	Mars orbiter, lander, and rover	[479]
Mars 2020 (Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter)	30 July 2020	Mars rover and helicopter drone; first powered flight on another planet	[480][481][482]
Chang'e 5	23 November 2020	Lunar sample return	[406][483]
Lucy	16 October 2021	Flyby of six Jupiter trojans and two main belt asteroids	[484][485]
DART / LICIACube	24 November 2021	Asteroid 65803 Didymos flyby, asteroid moon Dimorphos impactor	[486][487]
James Webb Space Telescope	25 December 2021	Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L2	[488][489]
CAPSTONE	28 June 2022	Lunar orbiter	[490]
Danuri (KPLO)	5 August 2022	Lunar orbiter	[491]
Artemis 1 and 10 cubesats	16 November 2022	Uncrewed lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System. The cubesats are launched as rideshares and will execute their own missions.	[492]
Hakuto-R Mission 1 (Rashid rover) and Lunar Flashlight	11 December 2022	Lunar lander technology demonstration, lunar rover, and lunar orbiter launched together (crashed into Moon)	[493][494][495]
JUICE	14 April 2023	Jupiter/Ganymede orbiter	[496]
Chandrayaan-3	14 July 2023	Lunar orbiter, lander and rover; first soft landing near the lunar South Pole	[497][498]
Luna 25	10 August 2023	Attempted lunar south pole lander (crashed into Moon)	[499][500]
Aditya-L1	2 September 2023	Sun-observing spacecraft at Sun–Earth L1	[501]
SLIM (LEV-1, LEV-2)	6 September 2023	Lunar flyby, lander and rovers	[502][503]
Psyche	13 October 2023	Asteroid 16 Psyche orbiter	[504]
Peregrine Mission One (including Iris and Colmena rovers)	8 January 2024	Lunar lander and rovers (landing precluded)	[505]
IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus (including EagleCam deployable camera)	15 February 2024	Lunar landers	[506]
DRO A/B	13 March 2024	Lunar orbiters	[507]
Queqiao-2 (including Tiandu-1 and 2)	20 March 2024	Lunar orbiters	[508]
Chang'e 6 (including Pakistan's ICUBE-Q cubesat)	3 May 2024	Lunar sample return, rover and orbiters; first sample return from the lunar far side	[509][510]
Hera (3 orbiters)	7 October 2024	Asteroid 65803 Didymos rendezvous	[511]
Europa Clipper	14 October 2024	Jupiter orbiter, Europa multiple flyby	[512][513][514]
Blue Ghost M1	15 January 2025	Lunar lander	[515]
H (including Tenacious rover)	15 January 2025	Lunar lander and rover	[516]
Intuitive Machines Nova-C IM-2 (including MAPP LV1, Micro-Nova, AstroAnt and Yaoki rover)	27 February 2025	Lunar lander and rovers
Lunar Trailblazer	27 February 2025	Lunar orbiter
Brokkr-2	27 February 2025	Asteroid flyby
Chimera-1	27 February 2025	Lunar flyby
Tianwen-2 (orbiters and landers)	29 May 2025	Asteroid study and sample return
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory	24 September 2025	heliophysics mission	[517]
Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1	24 September 2025	heliophysics mission	[517]
Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe	24 September 2025	heliophysics mission	[517]

Planned or scheduled

Main article: List of proposed Solar System spacecraft

See also

• Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
• Human presence in space
• List of missions to the Moon
• List of missions to Venus
• List of missions to Mars
• List of Solar System probes
• List of interplanetary voyages
• List of space telescopes
• New Frontiers program
• Out of the Cradle – 1984 book about 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 exploration
• Timeline of space travel by nationality
• Timeline of spaceflight