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Venera 13

The Venera 13 mission represents a significant achievement in early planetary exploration. Launched by the Soviet Union...

Surface Soviet Past Lander

9.2 Excellent

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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is a small rotorcraft developed by NASA for exploration on Mars. It achieved unprecedented...

Helicopter Technology Nasa Mars

9.2 Excellent

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Venera 9

The Venera 9 mission represents a significant achievement in early planetary exploration. Launched by the Soviet Union i...

Soviet Past Lander Venus

9.0 Excellent

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Mariner 2

The Mariner 2 spacecraft represents a pivotal moment in space exploration. Launched by NASA in 1962, it achieved the fir...

Nasa Past Venus Firsts

8.9 Great

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Venera 7

The Venera 7 mission represents a pivotal achievement in space exploration. Launched by the Soviet Union in 1970, it ach...

Soviet Past Lander Venus

8.9 Great

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Hayabusa

The Hayabusa mission, developed by JAXA, successfully retrieved microscopic samples from the asteroid Itokawa in 2010. T...

Past Asteroid Jaxa Sample Return

8.8 Great

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Magellan

The Magellan mission utilized radar technology to study Venus. Launched by NASA in 1989, it provided the first comprehen...

Radar Nasa Past Venus

8.7 Great

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Mariner 10

Mariner 10 was a NASA probe launched in 1973, the first mission to visit Mercury and the first to use a planetary gravit...

Nasa Past Mercury Venus

8.6 Great

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Kaguya

Kaguya, also called SELENE, was Japan's 2007 lunar orbiter that mapped the Moon in detail with subsatellites and high-de...

Past Moon Orbiter Jaxa

8.4 Great

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Pioneer Venus Orbiter

Pioneer Venus Orbiter was a NASA spacecraft launched in 1978, the first American Venus orbiter and a radar mapper of the...

Nasa Past Atmosphere Venus

8.2 Great

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Vega 1

Vega 1 was a Soviet mission launched in 1984, combining a Venus lander and balloon with a later flyby of Halley's Comet.

Soviet Past Comet Venus

8.2 Great

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Vega 2

Vega 2 was a Soviet mission launched in 1984, delivering a Venus lander and balloon before continuing to fly past Halley...

Soviet Past Comet Venus

8.2 Great

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Venus Express

Venus Express was an ESA orbiter launched in 2005, the first European spacecraft to orbit Venus and study its atmosphere...

Past Atmosphere Venus Orbiter

8.1 Great

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Yohkoh

Yohkoh was Japan's 1991 Solar-A observatory, notable for a decade of X-ray solar flare and corona observations with NASA...

Solar Observatory Past X Ray

8.0 Great

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Akari

Akari was JAXA's 2006 infrared astronomy satellite, notable for surveying nearly the whole sky with a 68.5 cm cooled tel...

Survey Telescope Infrared Past

7.7 Good

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Akatsuki

Akatsuki was a JAXA Venus climate orbiter launched in 2010, reaching Venus orbit in 2015 after a failed first insertion...

Climate Active Venus Orbiter

7.7 Good

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SLIM

SLIM was Japan's 2023 lunar lander, built by JAXA to demonstrate pinpoint landing and making Japan the fifth country to...

Precision Past Moon Lander

7.7 Good

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Geotail

Geotail was a 1992 ISAS-NASA mission that studied Earth's magnetotail, notable for three decades of magnetosphere observ...

Nasa Past Magnetosphere Earth

7.6 Good

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Akebono

Akebono was Japan's 1989 EXOS-D satellite for aurora and magnetosphere studies, notable for 26 years of observations bef...

Aurora Past Magnetosphere Earth

7.4 Good

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Hitomi

Hitomi was a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 2016, notable for brief high-resolution observations before...

Astronomy Telescope Past X Ray

4.7 Poor