Timeline

2026-10-06

Starlink satellite constellation · more than 11,000 satellites

2024-12-24

Parker Solar Probe · about 430,000 mph

2024-12-17

17 December 2024 Tiangong EVA · 546 minutes

2024-09-23

Oleg Kononenko · 1,111 days

2024-08-21

Voyager 1 · 164.7 AU

2024-06-25

Chang'e 6 spacecraft · First achievement · South Pole–Aitken basin, Moon; return to Siziwang Banner, China

2021-12-25

James Webb Space Telescope · about 6.5 metres

2021-04-19

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter · First achievement · Wright Brothers Field, Jezero Crater, Mars

2019-01-03

Chang'e 4 lander · First achievement · Von Kármán crater, far side of the Moon

2015-12-21

Falcon 9 rocket · First achievement · Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA

2015-07-14

New Horizons · 2015 year · Pluto

2014-11-12

Philae · 2014 year · Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

2012-08-25

Voyager 1 · 2012-08-25 date · Heliosphere boundary

2011-03-18

MESSENGER · 2011 year · Mercury

2010-06-13

Hayabusa spacecraft · First achievement · Asteroid Itokawa; return capsule recovered near Woomera, Australia

2009-09-10

SLS Five-Segment Solid Rocket Booster · 14590 kN · Northrop Grumman test facility, Promontory, Utah, USA

2004-07-01

Cassini · 2004 year · Saturn

1995-03-22

Valeri Polyakov · 437 days 17 hours 38 minutes days

1989-08-25

Voyager 2 · 1989 year · Neptune

1986-01-24

Voyager 2 · 1986 year · Uranus

1985-09-11

ISEE-3 · 1985 year · Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner

1976-07-20

Viking 1 · 1976 year · Mars

1974-03-29

Mariner 10 · 1974 year · Mercury

1974-02-05

Mariner 10 · 1974 year · Venus

1973-12-04

Pioneer 10 · 1973 year · Jupiter

1971-11-14

Mariner 9 · 1971 year · Mars

1970-12-15

Venera 7 · 1970 year · Venus

1970-11-17

Lunokhod 1 · 1970 year · Moon

1970-09-21

Luna 16 · 1970 year · Moon

1969-07-20

Neil Armstrong · 1969-07-20 date · Sea of Tranquility, the Moon

1967-11-09

Rocketdyne F-1 engine · 6770 kN

1966-04-02

Luna 10 · 1966 year · Moon

1966-02-03

Luna 9 · 1966 year · Moon

1962-12-14

Mariner 2 · 1962 year · Venus

1961-04-12

Yuri Gagarin · First achievement · Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan (launch site)

1959-09-14

Luna 2 · 1959 year · Moon

1959-01-02

Luna 1 · 1959 year · Deep Space

1958-03-17

Vanguard 1 · 1958-03-17 date

1957-10-04

Sputnik 1 · 1957-10-04 date

Ganymede · 5,268 km · Orbiting Jupiter

Olympus Mons · about 22 km high km · Mars

Jupiter · about 142,984 km · Solar System

Ceres · diameter about 952 km · Solar System

Ceres · about 964 km · Solar System

Pluto · about 2,377 km · Solar System

Venus · about 467 °C · Solar System

Mercury · about 47 km/s · Solar System

Mercury · about 4,880 km · Solar System

Valles Marineris · about 4,000 km · Valles Marineris, Mars

Jupiter · about 9.9 hours