1990s
- 1990 - USA/ Europe - Sun - Success - Ulysses solar flyby
- 1990 - Japan - Moon - Success - Hiten probe, this was the first non-United States or USSR probe to reach the Moon
- 1990 - USA/ Europe - Success - Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
- 1990 - Germany - Success - Launch of the ROSAT X-ray satellite to conduct the first imaging X-ray sky survey
- 1991 - Japan - Sun - Success - Yohkoh solar probe
- 1991 - USA - Earth - Success - Launch of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory satellite
- 1992 - USA - Mars - Failure - Mars Observer orbiter
- 1993 - Japan - Earth - Success - Launch of the ASCA (ASTRO-D) X-ray satellite
- 1994 - USA - Moon - Success - Clementine orbiter mapped the surface of the Moon (resolution 125-150m) and allowed the first accurate relief map of the Moon to be generated
- 1995 - Europe - Earth - Success - Launch of the Infrared Space Observatory
- 1995 - Europe/ USA - Sun - Success - SOHO solar probe
- 1996 - USA - 433 Eros - Success - NEAR Shoemaker - asteroid flybys/orbiter/lander
- 1996 - USA - Mars - Success - Mars Global Surveyor orbiter
- 1996 - USA - Mars - Success - Mars Pathfinder, the first automated surface exploration of another planet
- 1996 - Russia - Mars - Failure - Mars 96 orbiter and lander
- 1997 - USA/ Europe - Saturn and Titan - Success - Cassini-Huygens - arrived in orbit on July 1, 2004, landed on Titan January 14, 2005
- 1998 - North Korea - Earth - Unknown - Claimed launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1 by North Korea though no independent source was able to verify its existence
- 1998 - USA - Moon - Success - Lunar Prospector orbiter
- 1998 - Japan - Mars - Failure - Nozomi (Planet B) orbiter, the first Japanese spacecraft to reach another planet
- 1998 - USA - Mars - Failure - Mars Climate Orbiter
- 1999 - USA - Mars - Failure - Mars Polar Lander
- 1999 - USA - Mars - Failure - Deep Space 2 (DS2) penetrators
- 1999 - USA - Earth - Success - Launch of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
- 1999 - Europe - Earth - Success - Launch of the X-Ray Multi-Mirror Mission, XMM-Newton
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