Destination · Asteroid

Vesta

Every figure on this page is counted from the committed mission records that name Vesta as a destination. None of them is maintained by hand.

Ephemeris pending

Body record

What the catalog records about Vesta

Body type: Asteroid
Orbits: Sun
Position in the explorer: Marked pending, never drawn

Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.

Derived figures

Missions to Vesta

Committed missions: 1
First launch: September 27, 2007
Latest launch: September 27, 2007
Concluded missions: 1
Recorded a success: 1
Success rate: 100%

Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 0 of the 1 record are still active, leaving 1 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.

Committed missions to Vesta by launch decade.
Decade	Missions launched
2000s	1

Who went

Agencies

JPL: 1
NASA: 1

A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 1.

What they did

Mission types

Flyby: 1
Orbiter: 1

A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.

How they ended

Outcomes

Success: 1
Partial success: 0
Failure: 0
Active: 0

Which ones

Every committed mission to Vesta

Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.

DawnSeptember 27, 2007Success

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These records in the directory

The directory's destination filter is a category taxonomy, and it has no Vesta key: these records are filed under asteroid alongside every other body of that kind. This page is where the catalog counts Vesta on its own.

View the 2 missions filed under asteroid

The explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed. None of the records above carries a committed trajectory dataset, so the explorer has no Vesta path to draw and this page offers no link to one.