Timeline of Solar System exploration

Timeline of Solar System exploration.

This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordered by date of spacecraft launch. It includes:

It does not include:

The dates listed are launch dates, but the achievements noted may have occurred some time laterin some cases, a considerable time later (for example, Voyager 2, launched 20 August 1977, did not reach Neptune until 1989).

Missions in italics are unfinished, i.e. have not yet been designated as successes or failures. Some unitalicised missions are nevertheless still operational, some in mission extension phases.

1940s

1944

1950s

Sputnik 1 – First Earth orbiter

1957

1958

1959

1960s

Vostok 1 – First manned Earth orbiter
Mariner 2 – First Venus flyby
Mariner 4 – First Mars flyby
Luna 9 – First lunar lander
Venera 4 – First Venus atmospheric probe
Zond 5 – First lunar flyby and return to Earth
Apollo 8 - First manned lunar orbiter
Apollo 11 – First manned lunar landing

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966 AS-201

1967

1968

1969

1970s

Mars 3 – First Mars lander
Pioneer 10 – First Jupiter flyby
Mariner 10 – First Mercury flyby
Voyager 2 – First Uranus/first Neptune flyby

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1980s

Giotto – Comet Halley flyby

1981

1983

1984

1985

Galileo – Mission to Jupiter

1986

1988

1989

1990s

1990

Mars Pathfinder – Mars lander and first Mars rover

1991

1992

1994

1995

1996

1997

Cassini–Huygens – First Saturn orbiter and first Titan lander

1998

1999

2000s

Mars Express/Beagle 2 – First planetary mission by the ESA
MESSENGER – First Mercury orbiter

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Chandrayaan-1 - Water Around Fresh Moon Crater

2009

2010s

Mars Science Laboratory – Mars lander and large rover
Mangalyaan – First Indian Mars orbiter
ExoMars, first ESA/Roscosmos Mars lander

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Summary of missions to the outer Solar System
System

Spacecraft
Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
Pioneer 10 1973 flyby
Pioneer 11 1974 flyby 1979 flyby
Voyager 1 1979 flyby 1980 flyby
Voyager 2 1979 flyby 1981 flyby 1986 flyby 1989 flyby
Galileo 19952003 orbiter;
1995, 2003 atmospheric
Ulysses 1992, 2004 gravity assist
Cassini–Huygens 2000 gravity assist 2004 orbiter;
2005 Titan lander
New Horizons 2007 gravity assist 2015 flyby
Juno 2016 orbiter

Planned or scheduled

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2028

2030

2031

2037

2040–60

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