Extraterrestrial orbiters
18 entries in the Extraterrestrial Orbiters compendium.
BepiColomboJoint ESA-JAXA mission to study Mercury.Cassini–HuygensJoint mission to study Saturn and its moons.Dawn (spacecraft)First spacecraft to orbit two celestial bodies and a dwarf planet.Enceladus ExplorerProposed mission to search for life on Enceladus using an ice-melting probe.Europa ClipperNASA probe to study Europa's subsurface ocean via flybys.Europa OrbiterCancelled NASA orbiter mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.Galileo (spacecraft)First spacecraft to orbit an outer planet.Juno (spacecraft)NASA solar-powered probe orbiting Jupiter since 2016.Jupiter Icy Moons ExplorerESA's first interplanetary mission to orbit a moon other than Earth's.Jupiter Icy Moons OrbiterProposed NASA mission to explore Jupiter's icy moons with nuclear propulsion.Laplace-PCancelled Russian orbiter-lander mission to study Ganymede.MUSE (spacecraft)European proposal for a dedicated Uranus orbiter and probe mission.NEAR ShoemakerFirst spacecraft to orbit and land on an asteroid.Neptune OdysseyProposed NASA orbiter mission to study Neptune and Triton.Rosetta (spacecraft)First spacecraft to orbit and land on a comet.Titan Saturn System MissionJoint NASA–ESA proposal for Saturn system exploration.Uranus Orbiter and ProbeFlagship-class mission concept to explore Uranus and its moons.Uranus PathfinderA proposed ESA–NASA orbiter for the Uranian system.
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