Pick a space agency below to see what they're launching next, what's flying now, and what they've already achieved.
Planned launches and missions on the horizon
India's first crewed orbital spaceflight program — aiming to send three astronauts to a 400 km orbit aboard an indigenously built capsule.
The most ambitious robotic mission ever conceived — retrieve the sample tubes cached by Perseverance and ferry them back to Earth.
A nuclear-powered rotorcraft that will hop across Saturn's moon Titan, studying its complex prebiotic chemistry and methane lakes.
Currently operating at their destination
The largest, most powerful space telescope ever built — peering back to the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang.
NASA's flagship program to return humans to the Moon and establish a sustainable lunar presence — paving the way for Mars.
Hunting for signs of ancient microbial life and caching samples for future return to Earth. Brought the first helicopter to fly on another world.
The fastest human-made object ever. Parker is repeatedly diving through the Sun's corona to unlock the secrets of the solar wind.
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India's first dedicated solar observatory, parked at the L1 Lagrange point to continuously study the Sun's corona and solar storms.
China's permanently crewed orbital outpost. Three modules host rotating crews of taikonauts conducting microgravity science 380 km above Earth.
Spacecraft en route to their target
En route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon, where it will perform 49 close flybys to assess Europa's habitability beneath the ice.
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer — ESA's mission to characterize Ganymede, Europa and Callisto and their potential as habitats.
After delivering Bennu samples to Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was rechristened APEX to chase asteroid Apophis during its 2029 Earth flyby.
Missions whose primary goals have concluded
India became the first nation to soft-land near the Moon's south pole — and the fourth ever to land on the Moon.
China's first independent Mars mission — successfully orbited, landed, and roved on the Red Planet on its first attempt.
The first mission in history to return samples from the far side of the Moon — landing in the South Pole–Aitken basin.
Humanity's first planetary defense test — DART slammed into asteroid Dimorphos to prove we can deflect a threatening space rock.