Interactive Space Exploration Mission Atlas
A sourced historical catalog of spacecraft, encounters, and destinations—built to distinguish what is known from what is not yet available.
Destinations in this release
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These first records exercise interstellar flybys, an orbiter and probe, a rover and helicopter, and a Kuiper Belt encounter without inventing missing trajectory data.
Launched 1977
Active missionNASA's Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and Saturn before becoming the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, where its extended mission continues.
Launched 1977
Active missionNASA's Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited all four giant planets at close range and now continues its extended mission in interstellar space.
Launched 1997
Completed · SuccessThe joint NASA, ESA, and ASI mission placed Cassini in orbit around Saturn and delivered ESA's Huygens probe to the surface of Titan.
Launched 2020
Active missionNASA's active Mars 2020 mission operates the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater, searching for signs of ancient microbial life and caching rock and regolith samples.
Launched 2006
Active missionNASA's active New Horizons mission performed the first close exploration of Pluto and later flew past Arrokoth, the most distant object explored up close.
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