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12 records

2010s

12 records

  1. 2011

    1. 2011-03-18 orbital insertion

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      Mission:

      MESSENGER entered Mercury orbit at 00:45 UT.

    2. 2011-07-16 orbital insertion

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      Mission:

      Dawn used ion propulsion to enter orbit around Vesta.

  2. 2012

    1. 2012-08-06 landing

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      Mission:

      The Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater.

    2. 2012-08-25 mission operations

      Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause and began sampling the interstellar environment.

  3. 2015

    1. 2015-03-06 orbital insertion

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      Mission:

      Dawn reached Ceres orbit after its earlier orbital investigation of Vesta.

    2. 2015-04-30 mission end

      MESSENGER struck Mercury at 19:26 UT after exhausting its propellant.

    3. 2015-07-14 planetary flyby

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      Mission:

      New Horizons completed the first close-range reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons.

  4. 2016

    1. 2016-07-05 orbital insertion

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      Mission:

      Juno entered Jupiter orbit after its journey from Earth.

  5. 2017

    1. 2017-09-15 mission end

      Cassini entered Saturn’s atmosphere in a planned final descent.

  6. 2018

    1. 2018-11-25 mission operations

      Voyager 2 crossed the heliopause into the interstellar environment.

    2. 2018-12-03 asteroid exploration

      NASA’s sample-return spacecraft reached asteroid Bennu.

  7. 2019

    1. 2019-01-01 planetary flyby

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      Mission:

      New Horizons explored the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth at close range.

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