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Jet Propulsion Laboratory space probes
- Dawn (spacecraft)Dawn, a NASA space probe, launched in September 2007. It carries a memory chip stamped with more than 360,000 names submitted by members of the public…
- Voyager 1Voyager 1 is a machine the size of a small car, and right now it is the most distant human-made object from Earth. At a distance of more than 172 AU from…
- Voyager 2Voyager 2 left Earth on the 20th of August 1977, riding a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket out of Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- Cassini–HuygensCassini-Huygens hurtled into Saturn's upper atmosphere on the 15th of September 2017 and burned away to nothing, exactly as planned.
- Viking programThe Viking program landed spacecraft on Mars in 1976, and for the next quarter-century it supplied nearly everything humanity knew about the red planet.
- Galileo (spacecraft)On the 21st of September 2003, the Galileo spacecraft was deliberately aimed into Jupiter's atmosphere and destroyed. The probe had spent nearly eight years…
- Mars Exploration RoverMars Exploration Rover was a NASA mission that sent two robots, Spirit and Opportunity, to the surface of Mars in January 2004, with a plan for each to last…
- Stardust (spacecraft)Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe that launched on the 7th of February 1999 on a mission to do something no spacecraft had ever done: fly…
- Rosetta (spacecraft)Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency that, on the 12th of November 2014, placed a lander named Philae on the surface of a comet for…
- Deep Impact (spacecraft)At 05:52 UTC on the 4th of July, 2005, Deep Impact drove a copper-tipped probe into the nucleus of comet Tempel 1 at more than ten kilometres per second.