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Kepler Space Telescope
defunct NASA space telescope
Pioneer 10
NASA space probe launched in March 1972
Pioneer 11
robotic space probe launched by NASA for planetary and heliosphere exploration
Mariner 10
American space probe
Dawn
NASA space probe exploring Vesta and Ceres
Mariner 9
Mars orbiter
Mariner 4
robotic spacecraft sent by NASA to Mars
Mariner 2
1962 space probe to Venus
Mars Global Surveyor
US spacecraft developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Venera 1
space probe
Mariner 3
robotic deep-space probe to Mars
Giotto
retired ESA spacecraft which visited Comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup
Phobos program
1988 Soviet missions to Mars
Ulysses
NASA robotic space probe that studied the Sun
Stardust
space probe launched by NASA in 1999
Mariner 5
uncrewed probe sent by NASA as part of Mariner program in 1967
Deep Impact
NASA space probe launched in 2005 to study comet Tempel 1
NEAR Shoemaker
1996 robotic space probe that landed on asteroid 433 Eros in 2001
Mars 1
Soviet space probe launched in 1962
COROT
CoRoT (French: ; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those of large terrestrial size, and to perform asteroseismology by measuring solar-like oscillations in stars. The mission was led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners.
Chang'e 2
Chinese Moon orbiter
Deep Space 1
spacecraft
Zond 2
USSR-era Russian space satellite
Nozomi
space probe
Venera 15
Soviet Venus orbiter
Suisei
Japanese space probe
Zond 1
spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program
International Cometary Explorer
American magnetospheric research satellite
Phobos 2
Soviet Mars probe
Vega 1
space probe
Sakigake
, known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the US or the Soviet Union. It aimed to demonstrate the performance of the new launch vehicle, test its ability to escape from Earth gravity, and observe the interplanetary medium and magnetic field. Sakigake also served as a reference probe for Halley's Comet. Early measurements would be used to improve the mission of the Suisei probe launched several months later.
Vega 2
space probe
Mariner 6 and 7
uncrewed probes sent by NASA as part of Mariner program in 1969
Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9
subseries of Pioneer space probes launched by NASA