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LIST OF SPACE PROBES

This is a condensed version of the more detailed List Of Planetary Probes .

Lunar probes

Luna Program - Soviet Lunar exploration (1959-1914).

Ranger Program - US Lunar hard-landing probes (1961-1965).

Zond Program - Soviet Lunar exploration (1964-1970).

Surveyor Program - US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966-1968).

Lunar Orbiter Program - US Lunar orbital (1966-1967).

Lunokhod Program - Soviet Lunar Rover probes (1970-1973).

Muses-A Mission ('' Hiten '' and ''Hagoromo'') - Japanese Lunar orbital and hard-landing probes (1990-1993).

'' Clementine '' - US Lunar orbital (1998).

'' Lunar Prospector '' - US Lunar orbital (1998-1999).

'' Smart 1 '' - European Lunar orbital (2003).

'' LUNAR-A '' - Japanese lunar orbiter and penetrators, launch scheduled for 2004 but delayed ever since.

'' SELENE '' - Japanese lunar orbiter and lander, launch postponed to Jan 2006.

Mars probes

Zond Program - failed Soviet flyby probe

Mars Probe Program - Soviet orbiters and landers

Viking Program - Two US orbiters and landers (1974)

Phobos Program - Failed Soviet orbiters and Phobos landers

'' Mars Pathfinder '' - Lander and wheeled robot (1996)

Mars Surveyor '98 Program ('' Mars Climate Orbiter '' and '' Mars Polar Lander '') - Failed US probes

Mars Odyssey - US orbiter

Mars Observer - failed US Mars orbiter

Mars Express ('' Mars Express Orbiter '' and '' Beagle 2 '') - European orbiter and failed lander 2003)

Mars Exploration Rovers - US rovers (2004-present)

'' Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter '' - US, launched 2005

'' Mars Science Laboratory '' - US, to be launched 2009

General solar system probes

Venera Program - Soviet Venus orbiter and lander

Vega Program - Soviet mission to Venus and Comet Halley

Zond Program - Soviet flyby missions to the Moon , Venus , and Mars

Pioneer Venus Project - US Venus orbiter

Mariner Program - US Mercury , Venus and Mars flybys

Pioneer Program - US Jupiter and Saturn flybys

Voyager Program - US Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune flyby and study of Interstellar Space

Giotto Mission - European flyby of Comet Halley ( 1986 )

Sakigake Probe - Japanese flyby of Comet Halley ( 1986 )

Suisei Probe - Japanese flyby of Comet Halley ( 1986 )

Galileo Probe - US Jupiter orbiter and atmosphere probe

Magellan Probe - US Venus orbiter

'' Cassini-Huygens '' - US-European Saturn orbiter and Titan lander Huygens (1997-present)

'' NEAR Shoemaker '' - US asteroid lander, launched 1996

'' Deep Space 1 '' - US comet/asteroid flyby, 1998-2000

Stardust Probe - US comet flyby and sample return, launched 1999, returned January 15, 2006

Genesis - first solar wind sample return mission, 2001-2004 (crash)

'' CONTOUR '' - US comet flyby mission; launch failure in 2003

'' Hayabusa '' - Japanese asteroid orbiter, lander and sample return, launched 2003

'' Rosetta '' - European comet orbiter and lander ( Philae ); launched 2004

MESSENGER - US Mercury orbiter, launched 2004

Deep Impact - successful US comet impactor, launched 2005

Venus Express - ESA probe to be sent for the observation of the Venus's weather in 2005.

'' New Horizons '' – launched on January 19 , 2006 , it will be the first probe to visit Pluto (in July 2015)

'' Interstellar Boundary Explorer '' (IBEX), scheduled to launch in the summer of 2008.

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