Jupiter Probes
| Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Image | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer 10 | NASA | 3 December 1973 | flyby | success | first probe to cross the asteroid belt; first Jupiter probe; first man-made object on an interstellar trajectory; now in the outer regions of the Solar System but no longer contactable | |||
| Pioneer 11 | NASA | 4 December 1974 | flyby | success | went on to visit Saturn | |||
| Voyager 1 | NASA | 5 March 1979 | flyby | success | went on to visit Saturn | |||
| Voyager 2 | NASA | 9 July 1979 | flyby | success | went on to visit Saturn, Uranus and Neptune | |||
| Ulysses (first pass) |
ESA/ NASA |
February 1992 | flyby | success | gravity assist en route to inclined heliocentric orbit for solar polar observations | |||
| Galileo Orbiter | NASA/ DLR |
7 December 1995 – 21 September 2003 |
orbiter | success | also flew by various of Jupiter's moons; intentionally flown into Jupiter at end of mission; first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter; first spacecraft to flyby an asteroid | |||
| Galileo Probe | NASA/ DLR |
7 December 1995 | atmospheric probe | success | first probe to enter Jupiter's atmosphere | |||
| Cassini | NASA/ ESA/ ASI |
December 2000 | flyby | success | gravity assist en route to Saturn | |||
| Ulysses (second pass) |
ESA/ NASA |
2003–04 | distant flyby | success | ||||
| New Horizons | NASA | 28 February 2007 | flyby | success | gravity assist en route to Pluto | |||
| Juno | NASA | 5 August 2011 (launch) | orbiter | en route | ||||
| JUICE | ESA | 2022 (launch) | orbiter | planned | planned to eventually enter orbit around Ganymede to become the first probe to orbit a natural satellite of another planet | |||
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