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Deep-space exploration
Deep-space exploration is explored here through 8 archived missions, from Galileo through Psyche, with the program’s spacecraft, people, milestones, and source-backed history connected along the way.
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Deep-space exploration spacecraft
8 mission-specific spacecraft and test articles, plus 0 launch systems and shared hardware records.
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Vesta and Ceres orbiterSeptember 27, 2007Dawn ion-propelled spacecraft
Dawn ion-propelled spacecraft launched at about 2,684 pounds (1,217 kilograms) and operated under NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with German and Italian instrument partners.
Multiple-asteroid flyby spacecraftOctober 16, 2021Lucy asteroid-flyby spacecraft
Lucy asteroid-flyby spacecraft launched at about 3,420 pounds (1,550 kilograms) and operated under NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Southwest Research Institute.
Pluto and Kuiper Belt flyby spacecraftJanuary 19, 2006New Horizons spacecraft
New Horizons spacecraft launched at 1,054 pounds (478 kilograms) and operated under NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Asteroid sample-return and extended-mission spacecraftSeptember 8, 2016OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft
OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft launched at about 4,650 pounds (2,110 kilograms) fueled and operated under NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Arizona, and Lockheed Martin.
Saturn orbiter and Titan atmospheric landerOctober 15, 1997Cassini orbiter and Huygens Titan probe
Cassini orbiter and Huygens Titan probe launched at 12,593 pounds (5,712 kilograms) fueled with Huygens and operated under NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, European Space Agency, and Italian Space Agency.
Jupiter orbiter and atmospheric probeOctober 18, 1989Galileo orbiter and atmospheric probe
Galileo orbiter and atmospheric probe launched at about 5,250 pounds (2,380 kilograms) for orbiter and probe and operated under NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with international instrument partners.
Polar Jupiter orbiterAugust 5, 2011Juno Jupiter orbiter
Juno Jupiter orbiter launched at about 7,992 pounds (3,625 kilograms) fueled and operated under NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Southwest Research Institute.
Metal-rich asteroid orbiterOctober 13, 2023Psyche asteroid orbiter
Psyche asteroid orbiter launched at about 6,056 pounds (2,747 kilograms) at launch and operated under NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arizona State University.