Mechanical_Device

Perseverance

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American robotic rover exploring Jezero Crater on Mars

Spitzer Space Telescope

Vehicle

decommissioned NASA infrared space observatory

Luna 1

Thing

Soviet lunar probe

Sputnik 2

Vehicle

Soviet artificial satellite that took the dog Laika to the space

Mariner 10

Vehicle

American space probe

InSight

Vehicle

robotic lander on Mars

Philae

Vehicle

robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft

Mars Orbiter Mission

Thing

Indian Mars orbiter (2013-2022)

Mariner 9

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Mars orbiter

Mariner 4

Thing

robotic spacecraft sent by NASA to Mars

Mars Express

Thing

European Mars orbiter

Herschel Space Observatory

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former ESA space observatory

MAVEN

Thing

Martian orbiter operated by NASA

Gaia

Vehicle

European Space Agency astrometric mission

Mariner 2

Thing

1962 space probe to Venus

Tiangong space station

Organization

Chinese space station in low Earth orbit

Tiangong-1

Organization

Chinese prototype space station in orbit from 2011 to 2018

2001 Mars Odyssey

Vehicle

2001 NASA orbiter studying the geology and hydrology of Mars

Luna 9

Vehicle

lander in the Soviet Union's Luna programme

Venera 7

Vehicle

space probe of the Soviet Union which landed on the planet Venus

Chang'e 4

Vehicle

Chinese Moon lander

Mars Global Surveyor

Vehicle

US spacecraft developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Venus Express

Vehicle

ESA spacecraft which orbited Venus

Mars 3

Vehicle

unmanned USSR spaceprobe

Venera 1

Vehicle

space probe

Luna 25

Vehicle

Russian lunar lander, lost after an engine overburn and resulting crash on the lunar surface

Hipparcos

Vehicle

scientific satellite of the European Space Agency

Vostok 6

Vehicle

Soviet space mission of 1963, the first human spaceflight to carry a woman (Valentina Tereshkova) in

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

Vehicle

NASA Cosmic Microwave Background probe launched in 2001

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Vehicle

NASA satellite of the Explorer program

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

Thing

mission of the European Space Agency to explore Jupiter’s moons

Chang'e 5

Vehicle

Chinese lunar lander

Giotto

Thing

retired ESA spacecraft which visited Comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup

Mariner 3

Event

robotic deep-space probe to Mars

Chang'e 3

Vehicle

lunar exploration mission operated by the China National Space Administration

Luna 10

Vehicle

spacecraft in the Soviet Union's Luna programme

Venera 9

Thing

1975 Soviet uncrewed space mission to Venus

IRAS

Vehicle

space observatory

Ulysses

Vehicle

NASA robotic space probe that studied the Sun

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

Vehicle

space observatory

Luna 16

Vehicle

space probe

Fobos-Grunt

Vehicle

former Russian spacecraft

Mariner 5

Thing

uncrewed probe sent by NASA as part of Mariner program in 1967

Mars 2

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Soviet Mars probe

Vostok 2

Vehicle

space mission of USSR

Planck

Vehicle

former ESA space observatory

Huygens

Vehicle

atmospheric entry probe that landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005

Luna 24

Vehicle

last sovietic space probe

Mars Polar Lander

Vehicle

robotic spacecraft lander launched by NASA on January 3, 1999

Shenzhou 5

Vehicle

first human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program

Lunokhod programme

Vehicle

Soviet moon rover program (1969-1977)

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Vehicle

decommissioned American infrared space telescope

Luna 21

Vehicle

Soviet spacecraft that landed on the Moon and deployed the Lunokhod 2 lunar rover

Shenzhou 7

Vehicle

mission of the Chinese space program

Surveyor 3

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third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon

Akatsuki

Thing

defunct Venus orbiter operated by JAXA

Venera 2

Thing

Soviet spacecraft intended to explore Venus

Cosmic Background Explorer

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NASA space observatory

Luna 20

Vehicle

space probe

Mars 1

Thing

Soviet space probe launched in 1962