Launched 2025
Active missionIMAP
NASA's active IMAP maps the heliosphere's boundaries and studies solar-wind interaction with interstellar space.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
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Launched 2025
Active missionSOLAR-1
NOAA's active SOLAR-1 continuously monitors the Sun and solar wind from L1 for operational space-weather observations.
- Agency
- NOAA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 2020
Active missionSolar Orbiter
The active ESA-NASA Solar Orbiter uses 10 science instruments to observe the Sun, solar wind, and the Sun's polar regions.
- Agency
- ESA · NASA
- Destination
- Sun · Venus
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 2018
Active missionParker Solar Probe
NASA's active Parker Solar Probe flies through the Sun's corona to provide unprecedented observations.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun · Venus
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 2015
Active missionDSCOVR
DSCOVR is an active joint NASA, NOAA, and USAF space weather station at Lagrange point 1 that monitors the solar wind for geomagnetic-storm warnings.
- Agency
- NASA · NOAA · USAF
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 2006
Active missionSTEREO
NASA's active STEREO mission uses the STEREO-A and STEREO-B spacecraft to study the Sun, solar wind, and space weather from multiple viewpoints.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 2001
Completed · Partial SuccessGenesis
NASA's Genesis spacecraft collected solar-wind samples at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point and returned the sample canister to Earth; despite a hard landing, samples were recovered.
- Agency
- NASA · JPL
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1997
Active missionACE
NASA's active Advanced Composition Explorer studies solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic energetic particles from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1995
Active missionSOHO
The active joint ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory studies the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
- Agency
- ESA · NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1994
Active missionWind
NASA's active Wind spacecraft is in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, observing the solar wind before it impacts Earth's magnetosphere.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1976
Completed · Partial SuccessHelios 2
Helios 2 was the second spacecraft launched to investigate solar processes as part of a cooperative project between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Like its twin, the spacecraft was put into heliocentric orbit.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1974
Completed · SuccessHelios 1
Helios 1 was a joint German-American deep-space mission to study the main solar processes and solar-terrestrial relationships. Its instruments were designed to investigate phenomena in regions between Earth's orbit and approximately 0.3 AU from the Sun.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1968
Completed · SuccessPioneer 9
Pioneer 9 was the fourth in a series of five NASA probes designed to collect data on electromagnetic and plasma properties of interplanetary space from widely separated points in heliocentric orbit.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1967
Completed · SuccessPioneer 8
NASA's Pioneer 8 was launched to heliocentric orbit to study interplanetary space. It sent back data for nearly 30 years.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1966
Completed · SuccessPioneer 7
Pioneer 7 was put into heliocentric orbit at 1.01 × 1.125 AU to study magnetic fields of solar origin, measure characteristics of the solar wind, and distinguish between solar and galactic cosmic rays.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1965
Completed · SuccessPioneer 6
Pioneer 6 was the first of several NASA spacecraft designed for launch at six-month intervals to study interplanetary phenomena in space in heliocentric orbits similar to that of Earth. These spacecraft successfully provided simultaneous scientific measurements at widely dispersed locations in heliocentric orbit.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics
Launched 1960
Completed · SuccessPioneer 5
NASA's Pioneer 5 successfully reached heliocentric orbit between Earth and Venus on a direct solar orbit trajectory to demonstrate deep space technologies and provide the first map of the interplanetary magnetic field.
- Agency
- NASA
- Destination
- Sun
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Heliophysics