Discovery library
Space missions
Active and historic missions from NASA, ESA, JAXA, ISRO, CSA and partners. Status lines were reviewed on 2026-10-23; each profile links to the agency's own page for the latest news.
19 of 19 missions
- NASA · CSACompletedArtemis IIMoon (crewed lunar flyby)The first crewed flight of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft carried four astronauts around the Moon and back — the first humans to travel to the Moon's vicinity since Apollo 17 in 1972.Launched 2026-04-01 · Crewed
- NASAEn routeEuropa ClipperJupiter system — EuropaThe largest planetary spacecraft NASA has built, designed to make about 49 close flybys of Europa to assess whether its ocean could support life.Launched 2024-10-14 · Orbiter
- ISROCompletedChandrayaan-3Moon — south polar regionIndia's lander Vikram and rover Pragyan made the first soft landing near the Moon's south pole.Launched 2023-07-14 · Lander / Rover
- ESAEn routeJUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)Jupiter system — GanymedeESA's mission to Jupiter's icy moons, which will become the first spacecraft to orbit a moon other than our own when it enters orbit around Ganymede.Launched 2023-04-14 · Orbiter
- NASA · ESACompletedArtemis IMoon (distant retrograde orbit)The uncrewed first integrated flight of SLS and Orion, which flew Orion into a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon over 25.5 days.Launched 2022-11-16 · Flyby / Deep space
- NASA · ESA · CSAActiveJames Webb Space TelescopeSun–Earth L2 halo orbit (~1.5 million km from Earth)The largest space telescope ever launched, observing in infrared with a 6.5 m segmented mirror shaded by a five-layer sunshield the size of a tennis court.Launched 2021-12-25 · Space telescope
- NASAActiveMars 2020 PerseveranceMars — Jezero CraterA car-sized rover searching for signs of ancient microbial life and collecting rock cores for possible future return to Earth.Launched 2020-07-30 · Lander / Rover
- ESA · JAXAEn routeBepiColomboMercuryTwo orbiters travelling together to study Mercury's interior, surface and magnetic environment.Launched 2018-10-20 · Orbiter
- NASAActiveParker Solar ProbeSun — coronaThe fastest object ever built and the closest any spacecraft has come to the Sun, diving through the corona to study how the solar wind is born.Launched 2018-08-12 · Flyby / Deep space
- ESACompletedGaiaSun–Earth L2Built the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way, measuring positions, distances and motions of nearly two billion stars.Launched 2013-12-19 · Space telescope
- NASAActiveMars Science Laboratory CuriosityMars — Gale CraterA nuclear-powered rover that showed ancient Gale Crater once held a lake with conditions suitable for microbial life.Launched 2011-11-26 · Lander / Rover
- NASAActiveNew HorizonsPluto and the Kuiper BeltThe first mission to Pluto, which revealed a geologically active world, then flew past the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.Launched 2006-01-19 · Flyby / Deep space
- ESACompletedRosettaComet 67P/Churyumov–GerasimenkoThe first spacecraft to orbit a comet and to deliver a lander, Philae, to a comet's surface.Launched 2004-03-02 · Orbiter
- NASA · Roscosmos · ESA · JAXA · CSAActiveInternational Space StationLow Earth orbit (~400–420 km, 51.6° inclination)A modular orbiting laboratory built by five partner agencies and continuously crewed since November 2000. It circles Earth about every 92 minutes at roughly 7.66 km/s.Launched 1998-11-20 · Space station
- NASA · ESA · ASICompletedCassini–HuygensSaturn systemThirteen years in orbit around Saturn transformed our view of its rings and moons; ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan.Launched 1997-10-15 · Orbiter
- NASA · ESAActiveHubble Space TelescopeLow Earth orbit (~520 km)A 2.4 m telescope that has made more than 1.6 million observations and helped measure the expansion rate and accelerating expansion of the universe.Launched 1990-04-24 · Space telescope
- NASAActiveVoyager 1Interstellar spaceThe most distant human-made object. After flying past Jupiter and Saturn it became the first spacecraft to cross the heliopause into interstellar space in 2012.Launched 1977-09-05 · Flyby / Deep space
- NASAActiveVoyager 2Interstellar spaceThe only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, completing the 'Grand Tour' of all four giant planets before entering interstellar space in 2018.Launched 1977-08-20 · Flyby / Deep space
- NASACompletedApollo 11Moon — Sea of TranquillityNeil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module Eagle on 20 July 1969 while Michael Collins orbited in Columbia.Launched 1969-07-16 · Crewed
