List of Solar System Probes - Asteroid Probes

Asteroid Probes

Target Spacecraft Organization Date Type Status Notes Image Ref
951 Gaspra Galileo NASA 29 October 1991 flyby success en route to Jupiter; minimum distance 1900 km
243 Ida Galileo NASA 28 August 1993 flyby success en route to Jupiter; minimum distance 2400 km; discovery of the first asteroid satellite Dactyl
1620 Geographos Clementine BMDO/
NASA		 1994 flyby failure flyby cancelled due to equipment malfunction
253 Mathilde NEAR
Shoemaker		 NASA 27 June 1997 flyby success flew within 1200 km of 253 Mathilde en route to 433 Eros
433 Eros NEAR
Shoemaker		 NASA January 1999 orbiter failure became flyby due to software and communications problems (later attempt at orbit insertion succeeded; see below)
9969 Braille Deep Space 1 NASA 29 July 1999 flyby partial success no close-up images due to camera pointing error; went on to visit comet 19P/Borrelly
2685 Masursky Cassini NASA/
ESA/
ASI		 23 January 2000 distant flyby success en route to Saturn
433 Eros NEAR
Shoemaker		 NASA February 2000 –
February 2001		 orbiter, became lander success improvised landing by orbiter at end of mission
5535 Annefrank Stardust NASA November 2, 2002 distant flyby success went on to visit comet 81P/Wild
25143 Itokawa Hayabusa ISAS 2005–07 sample return success landed on Itokawa in 2005 and returned to Earth in 2010
MINERVA ISAS 12 November 2005 hopper failure missed target
132524 APL New Horizons NASA June 2006 distant flyby success en route to Pluto
2867 Šteins Rosetta ESA 5 September 2008 flyby success en route to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
21 Lutetia Rosetta ESA 11 July 2010 flyby success en route to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
4 Vesta Dawn NASA 16 July 2011 – 5 September 2012 orbiter success now en route to Ceres
4179 Toutatis Chang'e 2 CNSA 6 January 2013 flyby en route

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