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This '''list of extraterrestrial orbiters''' is a listing of [[Engineering:Spacecraft|spacecraft]] that achieved an extraterrestrial orbit.

== Legend ==
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==Sun==
{{main article|Astronomy:List of artificial objects in heliocentric orbit}}
First artificial object on heliocentric orbit was [[Engineering:Luna 1|Luna 1]] (1959).

==Mercury==
{|class='wikitable'
!Mission
!Country/agency
!Orbital insertion
!Current status
!Notes
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|[[Astronomy:MESSENGER|MESSENGER]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|18 March 2011
|Deliberately crashed into surface 30 April 2015. Impact probably around 54.4° N, 149.9° W, near the crater Janáček.
|First [[Astronomy:Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] orbiter
|}

==Venus==
{|class='wikitable'
!Mission
!Country/agency
!Orbital insertion
!Current status
!Notes
|-
|[[Astronomy:Venera 9|Venera 9]]
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 22 October 1975
| Mission terminated on March 22, 1976
|First [[Astronomy:Venus|Venus]] orbiter
|-
|[[Astronomy:Venera 10|Venera 10]]
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 23 October 1975
| Contact lost sometime in June 1976
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|[[Astronomy:Pioneer Venus Orbiter|Pioneer Venus Orbiter]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|4 December 1978
|Contact lost 8 October 1992; Atmospheric entry disintegration on 22 October 1992.
|
|-
|[[Astronomy:Venera 15|Venera 15]]
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
|10 October 1983
|Contact lost January 5, 1985
|
|-
|[[Astronomy:Venera 16|Venera 16]]
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
|11 October 1983
|Contact lost June 13, 1984
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|''[[Engineering:Magellan (spacecraft)|Magellan]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 7 August 1990
| Contact lost 13 October 1994. Deliberately deorbited into Venus' atmosphere.
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|''[[Astronomy:Venus Express|Venus Express]]''
|[[Image:ESA logo simple.svg|24px]] [[Organization:European Space Agency|ESA]]
| 11 April 2006
| Contact lost 16 December 2014: Atmospheric entry disintegration in January 2015
|
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
|''[[Engineering:Akatsuki (spacecraft)|Akatsuki]]''
|{{flagicon|Japan}} Japan
|7 December 2015
|Active
|
|}

==Moon==
[[File:Apollo 17 Command Module AS17-145-22261HR.jpg|thumb|270px|The Apollo 17 Command Module ''America'' seen in lunar orbit from the ascent stage of the Lunar Module]]
{|class='wikitable'
|- class="is-sticky"
!Mission
!Country/agency
!Orbital insertion
!Current status
!Notes
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|[[Engineering:Luna 10|Luna 10]]<ref>[https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1966-027A NSSDC - Luna 10]</ref>
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 3 April 1966
| Contact lost 30 May 1966, probably decayed the same year
| First extraterrestrial and [[Astronomy:Exploration of the Moon|Moon orbiter]]
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar Orbiter 1|Lunar Orbiter 1]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 14 August 1966
| Impacted lunar surface 29 October 1966
| First {{wipe|United States of America}} extraterrestrial orbiter
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Luna 11|Luna 11]]<ref>[https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1966-078A NSSDC - Luna 11]</ref>
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 27 August 1966
| Contact lost 1 October 1966, probably decayed the same or following year
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Luna 12|Luna 12]]
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 25 October 1966
| Contact lost 19 January 1967, probably decayed the same year
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar Orbiter 2|Lunar Orbiter 2]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 6 November 1966
| Impacted lunar surface 11 October 1967
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar Orbiter 3|Lunar Orbiter 3]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 8 February 1967
| Impacted lunar surface 9 October 1967
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar Orbiter 4|Lunar Orbiter 4]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 4 May 1967
| Contact lost 17 July 1967, impacted lunar surface 6 October 1967
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Explorer 35|Explorer 35]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 19 July 1967
| Deactivated 24 June 1973; impacted lunar surface in the middle to late 1970s
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar Orbiter 5|Lunar Orbiter 5]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 5 August 1967
| Deorbited; impacted lunar surface 31 January 1968
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Luna 14|Luna 14]]
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 10 April 1968
| Mission terminated 24 June 1968, its orbit probably decayed
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Luna 19|Luna 19]]
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 2 October 1971
| Mission terminated 20 October 1972 and contact lost on 1 November 1972, probably decayed the following year
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Explorer 49|Explorer 49]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 10 June 1973
| Contact lost August 1977, its orbit probably decayed
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Luna 22|Luna 22]]
||{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 2 June 1974
| Mission terminated November 1975, its orbit probably decayed in 1976
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 8|Apollo 8]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 21 December 1968; entered orbit after 69 hrs
| Left orbit after 10 orbits; [[Engineering:Splashdown|splashdown]] on Earth
| First crewed lunar orbit
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 10|Apollo 10]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 18 May 1969
| Left orbit 26 May 1969
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 11|Apollo 11]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA|| July 19, 1969 || July 21, 1969; Lunar module ascent stage abandoned in orbit, impact site unknown || First human [[Astronomy:Moon landing|Moon landing]]
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 12|Apollo 12]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA|| November 18, 1969 || November 21, 1969 || Human Moon landing
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 14|Apollo 14]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA|| February 4, 1971 || February 7, 1971 || Human Moon landing
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 15|Apollo 15]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA|| July 29, 1971 || August 4, 1971 || Human Moon landing
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:PFS-1#Lunar subsatellite|Apollo 15 subsatellite (PFS-1)]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA || August 4, 1971 || January 1973 ||
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 16|Apollo 16]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA|| April 19, 1972 || April 25, 1972; Lunar module ascent stage abandoned in orbit, impact site unknown || Human Moon landing
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:PFS-2#Particles and Fields Subsatellite PFS-2|Apollo 16 subsatellite (PFS-2)]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA|| April 24, 1972 || May 29, 1972 ||
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Apollo 17|Apollo 17]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA|| December 11, 1972 || December 14, 1972 || Human Moon landing
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Hiten (spacecraft)|Hiten and Hagoromo]]
||{{flagicon|Japan}} Japan
| Hiten: 15 February 1993
| Hiten was deliberately deorbited and impacted the lunar surface 10 April 1993
| First {{wipe|Japan}}ese lunar orbiter
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| ''[[Engineering:Clementine (spacecraft)|Clementine]]''
||{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 25 January 1994
| Left lunar orbit and entered heliocentric orbit; contact lost June 1994
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar Prospector|Lunar Prospector]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| Launched 7 January 1998
| Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 31 July 1999
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:SMART-1|SMART-1]]
|[[Image:ESA logo simple.svg|24px]] [[Organization:European Space Agency|ESA]]
| 11 November 2004
||Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 3 September 2006
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:SELENE|SELENE (Kaguya, Okina and Ouna)]]
|{{flagicon|Japan}} Japan
| 3 October 2007
| Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 10 June 2009
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Chang'e 1|Chang'e 1]]
|{{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 5 November 2007
| Deliberately deorbited 1 March 2009; impacted the Moon's surface.
| First {{wipe|China}} lunar orbiter
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Chandrayaan-1|Chandrayaan-1]]
|{{flagicon|India}} India
| 8 November 2008
| Deliberately crashed into lunar surface. Impact probe remained operational for a few days. Contact lost 29 August 2009.
| First {{wipe|India}}n lunar orbiter
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter|Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter]]<ref>[http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/whereislro/ Where is LRO?]</ref>
||{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 23 June 2009
| Active
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Chang'e 2|Chang'e 2]]
||{{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 6 October 2010
| Left lunar orbit 8 June 2011; currently in deep-space orbit
|
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| [[Astronomy:THEMIS#ARTEMIS|ARTEMIS P1]]
||{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 2 July 2011
| Active
|
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| [[Astronomy:THEMIS#ARTEMIS|ARTEMIS P2]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Hendrix|first=Susan|title=Second ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/artemis/news/P2-lunarOrbit.html|work=The Sun-Earth Connection: Heliophysics|date=25 March 2015 |publisher=[[Organization:NASA|NASA]]}}</ref>
||{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 17 July 2011
| Active
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
||{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 31 December 2011 / 1 January 2012
| Both spacecraft were deliberately deorbited and impacted on the lunar surface 17 December 2012
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:LADEE|LADEE]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 6 October 2013
| Deliberately deorbited 18 April 2014
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Chang'e 3|Chang'e 3]]
||{{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 6 December 2013
| Landed on lunar surface 14 December 2013
| First Chinese lunar landing
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Chang'e 5-T1|Chang'e 5-T1]]
||{{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 13 January 2015
| Returned to Earth on 31 October 2014
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Chang'e 4|Chang'e 4]]
||{{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 12 December 2018
| Landed on lunar surface 3 January 2019. The ''Queqiao'' relay satellite was placed in an Earth-Moon [[Astronomy:Lagrangian point|L<sub>2</sub>]] [[Astronomy:Halo orbit|halo orbit]].
| First lunar far-side landing
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| Longjiang-2 microsatellite
||{{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 25 May 2018
| Deorbited 2019
| 
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Beresheet|Beresheet]]
||{{flagicon|Israel}} Israel
| 4 April 2019
| Crashed onto lunar surface 11 April 2019
| First private lunar lander. Successfully orbited for 7 days. Soft landing failed.
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| [[Astronomy:Chandrayaan-2|Chandrayaan-2]]
||{{flagicon|India}} India
| 20 August 2019
| Orbiter is active. The Vikram lander lost contact at 2.1&nbsp;km from the lunar surface, and was subsequently destroyed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/science/india-moon-mission-vikram-found.html|title=A Billion Pixels and the Search for India's Crashed Moon Lander|last=Chang|first=Kenneth|date=2019-12-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|It was originally thought that Vikram had survived the impact, and ISRO continued trying to contact the lander until the lunar night.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/isro-not-losing-hope-continues-to-make-all-out-efforts-to-restore-link-with-lander-vikram/articleshow/71045854.cms|title=Chandrayaan-2: Isro, not losing hope, continues to make all-out efforts to restore link with lander 'Vikram'|date=September 9, 2019|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-09-09}}</ref>
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| [[Astronomy:Chang'e 5|Chang'e 5]]
| {{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 1 December 2020
| Orbiter is {{as of|2022}} in lunar [[Astronomy:Distant retrograde orbit|DRO]] orbit.
| <small>First lunar sample return mission by China. Ascent stage deorbited on 7 December 2020. Capsule successfully returned sample via service module on 16 December 2020. The orbiter will make lunar flyby in extended mission on 9 September 2021 in [[Astronomy:Distant retrograde orbit|Distant retrograde orbit]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-06|title=China's Chang'e-5 orbiter is heading back to the moon|url=https://spacenews.com/chinas-change-5-orbiter-is-heading-back-to-the-moon/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=SpaceNews|language=en-US}}</ref></small>
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| [[Astronomy:CAPSTONE|CAPSTONE]]
| {{flagicon|US}} USA
| 14 November 2022
| Active and on a [[Astronomy:Near-rectilinear halo orbit|Near-rectilinear halo orbit]] (NRHO)
|Lunar orbiting [[Engineering:CubeSat|CubeSat]] that will test and verify the calculated orbital stability planned for the [[Astronomy:Lunar Gateway|Gateway]] space station.
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Engineering:Artemis 1|Artemis 1]]
| {{flagicon|US}} USA
| 25 November 2022
| Remained on a Selenocentric orbit ([[Astronomy:Distant retrograde orbit|DRO]]) until 5 December 2022, then returned back to Earth
| First mission of the [[Astronomy:Artemis program|Artemis program]].
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| LunaH-Map
| {{flagicon|US}} USA
| 25 November 2022
| Decayed 20 February 2023
|
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Lunar IceCube|Lunar IceCube]]
| {{flagicon|US}} USA
| 25 November 2022
| On a Selenocentric orbit
| Contact lost shortly after the launch. Conducted lunar flyby on 21 November 2022, likely in a heliocentric orbit.
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| ''Danuri'' [[Astronomy:Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter|KPLO]]
| {{flagicon|US}} USA / {{flagicon|ROK}} South Korea
| 16 December 2022
| On a Selenocentric orbit
|Lunar Orbiter by the [[Organization:Korea Aerospace Research Institute|Korea Aerospace Research Institute]] (KARI) of {{wipe|South Korea}}. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control infrastructure are technology demonstrators. The orbiter will also be tasked with surveying [[Astronomy:Lunar resources|lunar resources]] such as [[Astronomy:Lunar water|water ice]], [[Chemistry:Uranium|uranium]], [[Physics:Helium-3|helium-3]], [[Chemistry:Silicon|silicon]], and [[Chemistry:Aluminium|aluminium]], and produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites.
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| {{nowrap|[[Astronomy:Hakuto-R Mission 1|Hakuto-R Mission 1]]}}
| {{flagicon|JPN}} Japan
| 21 March 2023
| Crashed onto lunar surface on 25 April 2023
| Carried the emirati Rashid and the japanese SORA-Q lunar rovers. Contact lost during landing attempt.
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Chandrayaan-3|Chandrayaan-3]]
||{{flagicon|India}} India
| 5 August 2023 
| Success (returned to Earth Orbit)
| Propulsion module, also functioning as a Chandrayaan-3 relay satellite. Conducted 4 flybys enroute return to Earth's orbit.
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| [[Astronomy:Luna 25|Luna 25]]
||{{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
| 16 August 2023 
| Crashed onto lunar surface on 19 August 2023
| Lunar south pole lander, landing scheduled for 21 August 2023. Contact lost after orbit lowering maneuver.
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
| {{nowrap|[[Astronomy:Smart Lander for Investigating Moon|SLIM]]}}
| {{flagicon|JPN}} Japan
| 25 December 2023
| Landed on Lunar surface on 19 January 2024
| Carried the japanese LEV-1 and LEV-2 lunar rovers. First Japanese soft landing.
|}

==Mars==
{|class='wikitable'
|- class="is-sticky"
!Mission
!Country/agency
!Orbital insertion
!Current status
!Notes
|-
|-style="background:#add8e6"
|[[Astronomy:Mariner 9|Mariner 9]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|14 November 1971
|Deactivated 27 October 1972. In derelict orbit around Mars, expected to decay no sooner than 2022<ref>[http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask-academy/issues/volume4/ata_4-9_mariner_9_prt.htm NASA - This Month in NASA History: Mariner 9] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514043808/http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask-academy/issues/volume4/ata_4-9_mariner_9_prt.htm |date=2013-05-14 }}, November 29, 2011 — Vol. 4, Issue 9</ref>
|First [[Engineering:Spacecraft|spacecraft]] to orbit another planet
First [[Astronomy:Mars|Mars]] orbiter
|-
|[[Astronomy:Mars 2|Mars 2]] orbiter
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
|27 November 1971  <ref name=orbit>{{Cite web |url=http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/log/ |title=NASA Mars log |access-date=2013-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113205319/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/log/ |archive-date=2014-11-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|Mission terminated 22 August 1972; spacecraft in derelict orbit
|First [[Place:Soviet Union|Soviet]] spacecraft to orbit Mars
|-
|[[Astronomy:Mars 3|Mars 3]] orbiter
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 2 December 1971<ref name=orbit/>
| Mission terminated on August 22, 1972
|
|-
|[[Astronomy:Mars 5|Mars 5]] orbiter<ref>[http://historicspacecraft.com/Probes_Mars.html Historic Spacecraft - Mars Probes]</ref>
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
| 12 February 1974
| Contact lost on 28 February 1974 due to a loss of pressurization in the transmitter <ref name="NSSDC">{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1973-049A|title=Mars 5|publisher=US National Space Science Data Centre|access-date=12 April 2013}}</ref>
|
|-
|-style="background:#add8e6"
|[[Astronomy:Viking 1|Viking 1]] orbiter
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|19 June 1976
|Mission terminated 17 August 1980, spacecraft in derelict high altitude orbit.
|
|-
|-style="background:#add8e6"
|[[Astronomy:Viking 2|Viking 2]] orbiter
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|7 August 1976
|Mission terminated 25 July 1978, spacecraft in derelict high altitude orbit.
|
|-
|[[Astronomy:Phobos 2|Phobos 2]]<ref>[http://www.astronautix.com/craft/fobos1f.htm Encyclopedia Astronautica Fobos 1F] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010222505/http://astronautix.com/craft/fobos1f.htm |date=2011-10-10 }}</ref>
|{{flagicon|USSR}} USSR
|29 January 1989
|Contact lost 27 March 1989
|
|-
|-style="background:#add8e6"
|[[Astronomy:Mars Global Surveyor|Mars Global Surveyor]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|11 September 1997
|Contact lost 2 November 2006; In derelict orbit around Mars, expected to decay no sooner than 2047<ref name="la times">{{Cite web |last=Dunn |first=Marcia |date=27 October 1996 |title=NASA Takes No Dirty Chances With Mars Rover |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-10-27-mn-58293-story.html |access-date=12 September 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
|
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
|''[[Astronomy:2001 Mars Odyssey|2001 Mars Odyssey]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|24 October 2001
|Active
|Longest-surviving, continuously active spacecraft in orbit around another planet
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
|[[Astronomy:Mars Express|Mars Express]]
|[[Image:ESA logo simple.svg|24px]] [[Organization:European Space Agency|ESA]]
|20 December 2003
|Active
|
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
|[[Astronomy:Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter|Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|10 March 2006
|Active
|
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
|[[Astronomy:MAVEN|MAVEN]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|22 September 2014
|Active
|
|-
|-style="background:#add8e6"
|[[Astronomy:Mars Orbiter Mission|Mars Orbiter Mission]]
|{{flagicon|India}} India
|24 September 2014
|Contact lost April 2022<ref>https://www.isro.gov.in/MOM_NationalMeet_2022SEP.html</ref>
|{{wipe|India}}'s first interplanetary mission
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
|[[Astronomy:ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter|ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter]]
|[[Image:ESA logo simple.svg|24px]] ESA
|19 October 2016
|Active
|Carried [[Engineering:Schiaparelli EDM lander|Schiaparelli EDM lander]]
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| [[Astronomy:Emirates Mars Mission|Emirates Mars Mission]] <br />(''Hope'')
| {{flagicon|UAE}} [[Place:United Arab Emirates|UAE]]
|  9 February 2021
|Active
|[[Place:United Arab Emirates|United Arab Emirates]]'s first interplanetary mission
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
| Tianwen 1
| {{flagicon|CHN}} China
|  10 February 2021
| Active
|
|}

==Jupiter==
{|class='wikitable'
!Mission
!Country/agency
!Orbital insertion
!Current status
!Notes
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|''[[Engineering:Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|8 December 1995
|Intentionally deorbited and incinerated in Jupiter's atmosphere 21 September 2003
|First [[Astronomy:Jupiter|Jupiter]] orbiter
|-
|-style="background:#ddf2d8"
|''[[Engineering:Juno (spacecraft)|Juno]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|4 July 2016
|Active
|
|-
|''[[Astronomy:Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer|JUICE]]''
|{{flagicon|EU}} ESA
|July 2031 (planned)
|en route 
|mission to study Jupiter's three icy moons [[Astronomy:Callisto (moon)|Callisto]], [[Astronomy:Europa (moon)|Europa]] and [[Astronomy:Ganymede (moon)|Ganymede]], eventually orbiting Ganymede as the first spacecraft to orbit a satellite of another planet.
|}

==Saturn==
{|class='wikitable'
!Mission
!Country/agency
!Orbital insertion
!Current status
!Notes
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|''Cassini-Huygens''
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA<br> [[Image:ESA logo simple.svg|24px]] ESA <br> {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Organization:Italian Space Agency|ASI]]
|1 July 2004
|Intentionally deorbited and incinerated in Saturn's atmosphere 15 September 2017
|First [[Astronomy:Saturn|Saturn]] orbiter
|}

== Minor planets and comets ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Mission
!Country/agency
!Object
!Orbital insertion
!Current status
!Notes
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|[[Astronomy:NEAR Shoemaker|NEAR Shoemaker]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|[[Astronomy:433 Eros|433 Eros]]
|14 February 2000
|Landed 12 February 2001 on the surface of [[Astronomy:433 Eros|Eros]].
|First spacecraft to orbit an [[Astronomy:Asteroid|asteroid]]
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|''[[Engineering:Dawn (spacecraft)|Dawn]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|[[Astronomy:4 Vesta|4 Vesta]]
|16 July 2011
|Left Vesta orbit 5 September 2012
|
|-
|-style="background:#add8e6"
|''[[Engineering:Dawn (spacecraft)|Dawn]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|[[Astronomy:Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres]]
|9 March 2015
|Mission concluded 1 November 2018. In derelict orbit around Ceres, expected to decay no sooner than 2038<ref name="NYT-20181101">{{cite news |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |date=November 1, 2018 |title=NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt Says Good Night - Launched in 2007, the spacecraft discovered bright spots on Ceres and forbidding terrain on Vesta. |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/science/nasa-dawn-ceres-vesta-asteroids-end.html |access-date=November 2, 2018}}</ref>
|First spacecraft to achieve orbit around two separate objects and to orbit a [[Astronomy:Dwarf planet|dwarf planet]].
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|''[[Engineering:Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta]]''
|[[Image:ESA logo simple.svg|24px]] [[Organization:European Space Agency|ESA]]
|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
|6 August 2014
|On 30 September 2016, ended its mission by landing on the comet in its Ma'at region.
|First spacecraft to orbit a comet. Philae lander module successfully landed on 12 November 2014
|-
|-style="background:#FCF2CF"
|[[Astronomy:OSIRIS-REx|OSIRIS-REx]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|[[Astronomy:101955 Bennu|101955 Bennu]]
|31 December 2018
|Collected surface sample and departed from Bennu on 20 October 2020<ref name="NYT-20201020">{{cite news |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |date=20 October 2020 |title=Seeking Solar System's Secrets, NASA's OSIRIS-REX Mission Touches Bennu Asteroid - The spacecraft attempted to suck up rocks and dirt from the asteroid, which could aid humanity's ability to divert one that might slam into Earth. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/science/osiris-rex-mission.html |access-date=21 October 2020}}</ref>
|Smallest body to be orbited by spacecraft and closest ever orbit<ref>{{cite web |date=2018-12-03 |title=NASA'S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu |url=https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-arrives-asteroid-bennu |access-date=2018-12-20 |publisher=NASA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2019-06-13 |title=NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Breaks Another Orbit Record |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/osiris-rex-breaks-another-orbit-record |access-date=2019-06-22 |publisher=NASA}}</ref>
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
* [[Astronomy:Lunar orbit|Lunar orbit]]
* [[Astronomy:Circumlunar trajectory|Circumlunar trajectory]]
* List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft
* [[Engineering:List of landings on extraterrestrial bodies|List of landings on extraterrestrial bodies]]
* [[Engineering:List of interplanetary voyages|List of interplanetary voyages]]
* [[Astronomy:Satellite system|Satellite system]]

{{Spacecraft by destination}}
{{Spaceflight lists and timelines}}

[[Category:Lists of space missions|extraterrestrial]]
[[Category:Orbiters (space probe)|*]]
[[Category:Non Earth orbiting satellites]]

{{Sourceattribution|List of extraterrestrial orbiters}}