Exploration
In situ exploration by spacecraft includes Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Ulysses, Galileo, Cassini–Huygens, and New Horizons. Planned missions include Juno Jupiter Orbiter and possibly the Outer Planet Flagship Missions; there are various proposals too, such as Uranus orbiter and probe. Ongoing missions for the outer planets as of 2011 include Cassini probe, orbiting Saturn, New Horizons, headed for Pluto, and Juno, headed for Jupiter. Cassini and New Horizons also visited Jupiter with a flyby.
| Spacecraft | Launch Year |
Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | End Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer 10 | 1972 | Flyby | 2003 | |||
| Pioneer 11 | 1973 | Flyby | Flyby | 1995 | ||
| Voyager 1 | 1977 | Flyby | Flyby | |||
| Voyager 2 | 1977 | Flyby | Flyby | Flyby | Flyby | |
| Galileo | 1989 | Orbiter | 2003 | |||
| Galileo Probe | 1989 | Entry | 1995 | |||
| Ulysses | 1990 | Flyby | 2009 | |||
| Cassini | 1997 | Flyby | Orbiter | |||
| New Horizons | 2006 | Flyby | ||||
| Juno | 2011 | Orbiter |
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