NASA probes to the outer planets, asteroids and comets, such as the Voyagers, Pioneers, Galileo, Cassini-Huygens, Juno, New Horizons, Dawn, OSIRIS-REx, DART and Europa Clipper. A mission belongs here when its cited article names NASA or the United States as its operator. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
All NASA Outer Solar System and Small-Body Missions
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Voyager Program (Wikipedia)
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The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
Pioneer program (Wikipedia)
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The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes.
Cassini-Huygens Mission (Wikipedia)
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Cassini-Huygens ( kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, was a joint space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
New Horizons (Wikipedia)
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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
Galileo (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)
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Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida.
Dawn (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)
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Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres.
Wikipedia: Juno (spacecraft)
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Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter.
OSIRIS-REx (Wikipedia)
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OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid.
DART Mission (Wikipedia)
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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission to test a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs).
Europa Clipper (Wikipedia)
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Europa Clipper (previously known as the Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a mission to send a space probe developed by NASA to study Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter.
Wikipedia, Discovery Program
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a series of Solar System exploration missions
Deep Space 1 - Wikipedia
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was a NASA technology demonstration spacecraft which flew by an asteroid and a comet
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