As of 2024, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the European Space Agency have conducted missions to comets. List of missions to minor planets...

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probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions. Flybys...

list of spacecraft missions (including unsuccessful ones) to the planet Mars, such as orbiters, landers, and rovers. Mission Type Legend   Mission to...

planets, moons and comets, but orbit the Sun. Most missions to minor planets have been to asteroids or dwarf planets. Spacecraft visits to minor planets have...

part of human exploration of the Moon, numerous space missions have been undertaken to study Earth's natural satellite. Of the Moon landings, Luna 2 of the...

(including gravity-assist flybys) space missions to the planet Venus. Missions to Venus constitute part of the exploration of Venus. The Soviet Union followed...

(numbered, excludes comets, see Trans-Neptunian object) List of missions to the Moon List of missions to Venus List of missions to Mars List of proposed Solar...

planets and comets visited by spacecraft List of missions to minor planets List of missions to comets List of Solar System probes List of artificial objects...

who used parallax measurements to show that comets must lie beyond the Moon. Many were still unconvinced that comets orbited the Sun, and assumed instead...

very bright comets such as Hale–Bopp and C/2012 S1 (ISON). From the infrared signature, the diameter of the comet nucleus is estimated to be approximately...

crater. Previous space missions to comets, such as Giotto, Deep Space 1, and Stardust, were fly-by missions. These missions were able to photograph and examine...

program. Conceptual proposals for missions that would involve human explorers started in the early 1950s, with planned missions typically being stated as taking...

spacecraft to orbit a comet. (Previous missions had conducted successful flybys of seven other comets.) It was one of ESA's Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions. The...

Soyuz missions include the following: two fatal missions, Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11, both of which reached space; Soyuz 18a, a non-fatal aborted mission which...

dedicated mission to study a comet. During the early 1990s, several missions to study Comet Halley became the first successful missions to return close-up...

is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. Since...

called Manx comets. They are still classified as comets, such as C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS). Twenty-seven Manx comets were found from 2013 to 2017. As of November 2021[update]...

star-forming region and comet 67P. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in enhanced colour, as imaged by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in 2015. List of comets visited by spacecraft...

not ultimately materialize.[citation needed] Spaceflight portal List of missions to comets DeBoy, C.C.; Haskins, C.B.; Brown, T.A.; Schulze, R.C.; Bernacik...

short-period comets formed under warmer conditions, than the longer period comets. This shows that the short-period comets formed closer to the Sun, than...

would be preserved for analysis by future generations of scientists. List of missions to comets TAGSAM – Regolith scoop used on asteroid Bennu by the...

"Present Understanding of Comets". Comets: Scientific Data and Missions: 174. Bibcode:1972csdm.conf..174D. Wood, J (December 1986). Comet nucleus models: a...

and Organics Return (CONDOR), a competing concept for mission #4 List of missions to comets List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules "海外ミッションを利用した太陽系サンプルリターン探査"...

Kingdom. The maximum cost of the spacecraft bus is set at €150M, excluding science instruments and launch services. Long-period comets have highly eccentric...

and Hyakutake C/1996 B2 are possible examples of such comets. They have atypical chemical makeups for comets in the Solar System. Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb...

space science mission are divided into two categories: "Sun and Solar System", missions studying the Solar System, and "Astrophysics", missions studying interstellar...

Comet Rendezvous, Sample Acquisition, Investigation, and Return (CORSAIR) — A competing concept for New Frontiers 4 List of missions to comets List of...

1973. Early predictions of the comet's peak brightness suggested that it had the potential to become one of the brightest comets of the 20th century, capturing...

Below is a list of artificial objects currently[update] in heliocentric orbit. This list does not include upper stages from robotic missions (only the...