Mission Archive

ESA · 2023

Jupiter, Ganymede

An ESA mission on its way to Jupiter to study three of its icy moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It is planned to become the first spacecraft to orbit a moon other than our own.

NASA · 2011

Jupiter

A NASA orbiter studying Jupiter's interior, magnetic field and polar regions from a looping polar orbit. It is the first solar-powered spacecraft to operate at Jupiter.

NASA · 2006

Jupiter, Pluto, Arrokoth

The first spacecraft to explore Pluto, flying past it and its moon Charon in July 2015, and later the small Kuiper belt object Arrokoth, the most distant world ever visited.

NASA/ESA/ASI · 1997

Jupiter, Saturn, Titan

A joint NASA, ESA and Italian Space Agency mission that orbited Saturn for 13 years and landed the Huygens probe on Titan. It ended with a planned dive into Saturn's atmosphere.

NASA · 1989

Jupiter, Gaspra, Ida

The first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, studying the planet and its moons for eight years and finding evidence of an ocean beneath Europa's ice. On the way it made the first flyby of an asteroid.

NASA · 1977

Jupiter, Saturn, Interstellar space

A spacecraft that performed flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's moon Titan. Currently exploring interstellar space.

NASA · 1977

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Interstellar space

A spacecraft that performed flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Currently exploring interstellar space.

NASA · 1973

Jupiter, Saturn

The second spacecraft to fly past Jupiter and the first to reach Saturn, passing within 21,000 km of its cloud tops in 1979.

NASA · 1972

Jupiter

The first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter, and the first sent on a path out of the Solar System.