List of interplanetary voyages


This is a comprehensive list of interplanetary spaceflights, spaceflight between two or more bodies of the Solar System, listed in chronological order by launch date. It includes only flights that escaped Earth orbit and reached the vicinity of another planet, asteroid, or comet. Flights that were planned but not executed, were destroyed at or shortly after launch, or missed their target entirely are not included. Flights which reached, but failed to return useful scientific data regarding their target, are given a gray background.
The list is divided between flights that stopped at a destination, and those that flew by their target.

Completed flights

The following flights were completed by matching velocity with the target object, whether by station-keeping, entering orbit, landing, or impact.

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Passing flights

The following flights flew by the target object at close range, but did not match velocity with their target or continued to another destination.

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

SpacecraftDestinationLaunchedClosest approachTime elapsedNotesRef
AkatsukiVenus20 May 20107 December 2010201 days Attempted but failed to enter orbit; later entered orbit during a second attempt on 7 December 2015
Chang'e 2Asteroid 4179 Toutatis flyby1 October 201013 December 2012804 days
PROCYONAsteroid 2000 DP107 flyby4 December 2014Failed 3 December 2015, and thus never made the flyby.
Parker Solar ProbeVenus12 August 20183 October 2018Obtain direct solar observationsNot making observations during the Venus flybys.