Deep space destinations

Spacecraft that left Earth orbit, grouped by the worlds they reached or aimed for. Each destination lists its orbiters, landers, rovers, impactors and flybys, with every recorded landing and impact.

8 destinations

Moon214spacecraft · 162 landings and impacts

Earth’s only natural satellite: the first target of deep-space flight in 1959 and the only world people have walked on.

First: Luna 1, 1959 Mars64spacecraft · 37 landings and impacts

Orbiters, landers and rovers sent to the Red Planet since 1960, and its two small moons.

First: Mars 1, 1962 Venus59spacecraft · 29 landings and impacts

The hottest planet: Soviet Venera landers, balloons and a series of orbiters and flybys.

First: Venera 1, 1961 Mercury4spacecraft · 1 landings and impacts

The innermost planet, visited by Mariner 10, MESSENGER and BepiColombo.

First: Mariner 10, 1973 Jupiter11spacecraft · 2 landings and impacts

The largest planet and its Galilean moons.

First: Pioneer 10, 1972 Saturn5spacecraft · 2 landings and impacts

Saturn, its rings and moons, including the Huygens landing on Titan.

First: Pioneer 11, 1973 Sun–Earth Lagrange points30spacecraft

L1 and L2, 1.5 million km from Earth: home of solar observatories and space telescopes.

First: International Cometary Explorer, 1978 Asteroids and comets26spacecraft · 17 landings and impacts

Small bodies of the Solar System: sample-return targets, flybys and the first planetary-defense impact.

First: Galileo, 1989

Source: GCAT lunar and planetary register, deep-space catalog and lander catalog, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0).