The 2020s
21 missions
Mars Perseverance Rover
Landed February 18, 2021 in Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed. Carries Ingenuity, the first helicopt...
Ingenuity
A technology demonstrator that was supposed to fly 5 times. Ended up completing 72 flights over 3 ye...
James Webb Space Telescope
The most powerful space telescope ever built, costing 10 billion dollars. Its sunshield is the size ...
SpaceX Starship
The tallest and most powerful rocket ever built at 121 meters. Designed to be fully reusable. Intend...
Chandrayaan-3
Made India the fourth country to land on the Moon and first to land near the south pole. Cost only 7...
Tianwen-1
Chinas first Mars mission. Entered orbit and landed the Zhurong rover in Utopia Planitia. Made China...
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Intentionally crashed into asteroid moon Dimorphos at 22,500 km/h. Changed its orbit by 32 minutes, ...
Euclid
Mapping the dark universe by observing billions of galaxies. Investigating dark energy and dark matt...
JUICE
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. Will study Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa for signs of habitability. Wil...
Europa Clipper
Designed to investigate whether Jupiters moon Europa could support life. Will make 49 close flybys w...
Artemis I
An uncrewed test flight of the Space Launch System and Orion capsule. Traveled 432,000 km from Earth...
Change 5
Returned the first new lunar samples in 44 years in December 2020. Brought back 1,731 grams of young...
Change 6
The first mission ever to return samples from the far side of the Moon, in June 2024. Collected abou...
Solar Orbiter
The first mission to image the Sun up close, including its poles. Flew inside the orbit of Mercury w...
Psyche
A mission to a metal rich asteroid believed to be the exposed core of a shattered early planet. If r...
Lucy
The first mission to the Trojan asteroids, two swarms of primitive bodies sharing the orbit of Jupit...
Dragonfly
A nuclear powered drone that will fly through the thick atmosphere of Titan, a moon of Saturn. The f...
Crew Dragon Demo-2
The first crewed orbital flight by a private spacecraft, on May 30, 2020. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurle...
Tiangong Space Station
The Chinese space station, completed in 2022 after a rapid series of launches. Masses about 100 tonn...
SLIM
The first Japanese Moon landing, in January 2024. Demonstrated pinpoint targeting, touching down wit...
New Glenn
The heavy lift rocket of Blue Origin, named for astronaut John Glenn. Its first flight reached orbit...