Asteroids
General Information
Missions to Asteroids
Current and Past Missions
- Psyche - Orbital Mission to Main Belt Asteroid 16 Psyche (2023)
- Lucy - Flyby Mission to Multiple Trojan Asteroids (2021)
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - Kinetic Impact Test Mission to Asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos (2021)
- LICIACube - Imaging Cubesat launched with DART (2021)
- OSIRIS-REx - Sample Return Mission to Asteroid Bennu (2016)
- Hayabusa2 - JAXA Sample Return Mission to Asteroid Ryugu (2014)
- PROCYON - JAXA Small Satellite Asteroid Flyby Mission (2014)
- Dawn - NASA Orbiter of Asteroids Ceres and Vesta (2007)
- Rosetta - ESA Comet Mission, flew by asteroids Steins and Lutetia (2004)
- Hayabusa (Muses-C) - ISAS (Japan) Sample Return Mission to Asteroid 25143 Itokawa (2003)
- Genesis - NASA Discovery Solar Wind Sample Return Mission (2001)
- Stardust - NASA Comet Coma Sample Return Mission, flew by asteroid AnneFrank (1999)
- Deep Space 1 - NASA Flyby Mission to asteroid Braille (1998)
- Cassini - NASA/ESA Mission to Saturn through the Asteroid Belt (1997)
- NEAR - NASA Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous with 433 Eros
- Galileo - NASA Mission to Jupiter via asteroids Gaspra and Ida
Future Missions
- NEA Scout - Flyby CubeSat Mission to Near Earth Asteroid (2022)
- Hera - Follow-up Mission to Asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos(2024)
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Meteors and Meteorites