Voyager 1
The farthest human-made object, past the heliopause since 2012; instruments are being retired one by one as its plutonium power source fades.
25.63 billion km
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The state of the solar system
Active Missions
Voyager 2
The only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, in interstellar space since 2018 on a different heading from its twin.
21.41 billion km
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James Webb Space Telescope
The flagship infrared observatory, in routine science operations from a halo orbit around the second Lagrange point.
1,371,635 km
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New Horizons
The Pluto flyby spacecraft, now more than sixty times the Earth–Sun distance out and still returning data from the outer heliosphere.
Crossing the Kuiper Belt on an extended heliophysics mission
9.67 billion km
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Parker Solar Probe
The fastest spacecraft ever flown, orbiting through the Sun's corona on close passes no probe has survived before.
Repeating record-close perihelion passes of the Sun
93.0 million km
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Europa Clipper
The largest planetary spacecraft NASA has built, cruising to Jupiter to survey Europa's ice shell and buried ocean.
Jupiter arrival, April 2030
92.9 million km
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Lucy
A twelve-year tour of the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit — fossils of the material the outer planets formed from.
Flyby of Trojan asteroid Eurybates, August 2027
804.3 million km
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Psyche
Bound for a metal-rich asteroid thought to be the exposed core of an early planetesimal, propelled by solar-electric thrusters.
Arrival at asteroid Psyche, 2029
302.6 million km
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BepiColombo
A two-orbiter mission closing in on Mercury after nine gravity-assist flybys, with orbit insertion now months away.
Mercury orbit insertion, November 2026
202.8 million km
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Solar Orbiter
The first spacecraft tilting its orbit to look down on the Sun's poles, pairing close-up imaging with in-situ solar-wind measurement.
Climbing to higher solar latitudes to image the Sun's poles
111.3 million km
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Perseverance
Exploring an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater and sealing rock cores for the return mission that would carry them home.
Caching samples for a future Mars Sample Return
283.1 million km
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Curiosity
Climbing Mount Sharp since 2014, reading the layers of a mountain built from three billion years of Martian climate.
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283.1 million km
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Distances are geocentric ranges computed by NASA/JPL’s Horizons system for the date shown, refreshed through the day. The roster lists missions whose operation Everything Space can vouch for; a mission whose status cannot be confirmed is left off rather than guessed at.