First artificial object on heliocentric orbit was Luna 1 (1959).
Mission | Country/Agency | Orbital insertion | Current status | Notes | Luna 10[1] | USSR}} USSR | 3 April 1966 | Contact lost 30 May 1966 | First moon orbiter |
Lunar Orbiter 1 | USA}} USA | 14 August 1966 | Impacted lunar surface 29 October 1966 | First U.S. extraterrestrial orbiter |
Luna 11[2] | USSR}} USSR | 27 August 1966 | 1 October 1966 |
Luna 12 | USSR}} USSR | 25 October 1966 | 19 January 1967 |
Lunar Orbiter 2 | USA}} USA | Launched 6 November 1966 | Impacted lunar surface 11 October 1967 |
Lunar Orbiter 3 | USA}} USA | 8 February 1967 | Impacted lunar surface 9 October 1967 |
Lunar Orbiter 4 | USA}} USA | Launched 4 May 1967 | Contact lost 17 July 1967, impacted lunar surface 6 October 1967 |
Explorer 35 | USA}} USA | Launched 19 July 1967 | Deactivated 24 June 1973; impacted lunar surface in the middle to late 1970s |
Lunar Orbiter 5 | USA}} USA | 5 August 1967 | Deorbited; impacted lunar surface 31 January 1968 |
Luna 14 | USSR}} USSR | 10 April 1968 |
Luna 19 | USSR}} USSR | 2 October 1971 | Mission terminated 20 October 1972 |
Explorer 49 | USA}} USA | Launched 10 June 1973 | Contact lost August 1977 |
Luna 22 | {{flagicon|USSR}} USSR | 2 June 1974 | Mission terminated November 1975 |
Apollo 8 | USA}} USA | Launched 21 December 1968; entered orbit after 69 hrs | Left orbit after 10 orbits; splashdown on Earth | First manned lunar orbit |
Apollo 10 | USA}} USA | Launched 18 May 1969 | Left orbit 26 May 1969 |
Apollo 11 | USA}} USA | July 19, 1969 | July 21, 1969; Lunar module ascent stage abandoned in orbit, impact site unknown | Human Moon landing |
Apollo 12 | USA}} USA | November 18, 1969 | November 21, 1969 | Human Moon landing |
Apollo 14 | USA}} USA | February 4, 1971 | February 7, 1971 | Human Moon landing |
Apollo 15 | USA}} USA | July 29, 1971 | August 4, 1971 | Human Moon landing |
Apollo 15 subsatellite (PFS-1) | USA}} USA | August 4, 1971 | January 1973 |
Apollo 16 | USA}} USA | April 19, 1972 | April 25, 1972; Lunar module ascent stage abandoned in orbit, impact site unknown | Human Moon landing |
Apollo 16 subsatellite (PFS-2) | USA}} USA | April 24, 1972 | May 29, 1972 |
Apollo 17 | USA}} USA | December 11, 1972 | December 14, 1972 | Human Moon landing |
Hiten and Hagoromo | {{flagicon|Japan}} Japan | Hiten: 15 February 1993 | Hiten was deliberately deorbited and impacted the lunar surface 10 April 1993 | First Japanese lunar orbiter |
Clementine | {{flagicon|USA}} USA | Launched 25 January 1994 | Left lunar orbit and entered heliocentric orbit; contact lost June 1994 |
Lunar Prospector | USA}} USA | Launched 7 January 1998 | Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 31 July 1999 |
SMART-1 | ESA | 11 November 2004 | Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 3 September 2006 |
SELENE (Kaguya, Okina & Ouna) | Japan}} Japan | 3 October 2007 | Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 10 June 2009 |
Chang'e 1 | PRC}} PRC | 5 November 2007 | Deliberately deorbited 1 March 2009; impacted the Moon's surface. | First Chinese lunar orbiter |
Chang'e 2 | {{flagicon|PRC}} PRC | 6 October 2010 | Left lunar orbit 8 June 2011; currently in deep-space orbit |
Chandrayaan-1 | India}} India | 8 November 2008 | Contact lost 29 August 2009 | First Indian lunar orbiter |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter[3] | {{flagicon|USA}} USA | 23 June 2009 | Active |
ARTEMIS P1 | {{flagicon|USA}} USA | 2 July 2011 | Active |
ARTEMIS P2[4] | {{flagicon|USA}} USA | 17 July 2011 | Active |
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) | {{flagicon|USA}} USA | 31 December 2011 / 1 January 2012 | Both spacecraft were deliberately deorbited and impacted on the lunar surface 17 December 2012 |
LADEE | USA}} USA | 6 October 2013 | Deliberately deorbited 18 April 2014 |
Chang'e 3 | {{flagicon|PRC}} PRC | 6 December 2013 | Landed on lunar surface 14 December 2013 | First Chinese lunar landing |
Chang'e 5-T1 | {{flagicon|PRC}} PRC | 13 January 2015 | Active |
Chang'e 4 | {{flagicon|PRC}} PRC | 12 December 2018 | Landed on lunar surface 3 January 2019 | First lunar far-side landing |
Mission | Country/Agency | Orbital insertion | Current Status | Notes | Mariner 9 | USA}} USA | 14 November 1971 | Deactivated 27 October 1972. In derelict orbit around Mars, expected to decay no sooner than 2022.[5] | First spacecraft to orbit another planet |
Mars 2 orbiter | USSR}} USSR | 27 November 1971 [6] | Mission terminated 22 August 1972; spacecraft in derelict orbit | First Soviet spacecraft to orbit Mars |
Mars 3 orbiter | USSR}} USSR | 2 December 1971[6] |
Mars 5 orbiter[7] | USSR}} USSR | 12 February 1974 |
Viking 1 orbiter | USA}} USA | 19 June 1976 | Mission terminated 17 August 1980, spacecraft in derelict high altitude orbit. |
Viking 2 orbiter | USA}} USA | 7 August 1976 | Mission terminated 25 July 1978, spacecraft in derelict high altitude orbit. |
Phobos 2[8] | USSR}} USSR | 29 January 1989 | Contact lost 27 March 1989 |
Mars Global Surveyor | USA}} USA | 11 September 1997 | Contact lost 2 November 2006; mission officially ended January 2007 |
2001 Mars Odyssey | USA}} USA | 24 October 2001 | Active | Longest-surviving, continuously active spacecraft in orbit around another planet |
Mars Express | ESA | 20 December 2003 | Active |
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | USA}} USA | 10 March 2006 | Active |
MAVEN | USA}} USA | 22 September 2014 | Active |
Mars Orbiter Mission | India}} ISRO | 24 September 2014 | Active | India's first interplanetary mission |
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter | ESA | 19 October 2016 | Active | Carried Schiaparelli EDM lander |
Mission | Country/Agency | Object | Orbital insertion | Current Status | Notes | NEAR Shoemaker | USA}} USA | 433 Eros | 14 February 2000 (Valentine's Day) | Landed 12 February 2001 on the surface of Eros. | First spacecraft to orbit an asteroid |
Dawn | USA}} USA | 4 Vesta | 16 July 2011 | Left Vesta orbit 5 September 2012 |
Dawn | USA}} USA | Ceres | 9 March 2015 | Mission concluded 1 November 2018 | First spacecraft to achieve orbit around two separate objects and to orbit a dwarf planet. |
Rosetta | ESA | 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko | 6 August 2014 | On 30 September 2016, ended its mission by landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. | First spacecraft to orbit a comet. Philae lander module successfully landed on 12 November 2014 |
Hayabusa2 | Japan}} Japan | 162173 Ryugu | 27 June 2018 | Active |
OSIRIS-REx | USA}} USA | 101955 Bennu | 31 December 2018 | Active |
1. ^NSSDC - Luna 10
2. ^NSSDC - Luna 11
3. ^Where is LRO?
4. ^{{cite web|last=Hendrix|first=Susan|title=Second ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/artemis/news/P2-lunarOrbit.html|work=The Sun-Earth Connection: Heliophysics|publisher=NASA}}
5. ^NASA - This Month in NASA History: Mariner 9 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514043808/http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask-academy/issues/volume4/ata_4-9_mariner_9_prt.htm |date=2013-05-14 }}, November 29, 2011 — Vol. 4, Issue 9
6. ^1 NASA Mars log
7. ^Historic Spacecraft - Mars Probes
8. ^Encyclopedia Astronautica Fobos 1F {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010222505/http://astronautix.com/craft/fobos1f.htm |date=2011-10-10 }}