What have I missed?
Space Probe update
Deep Space
Voyager – Both still operating and more than 40 years old.
New Horizons beyond Pluto – No new flyby Kuyper Belt target yet.
Juno at Jupiter – Original mission with 12 flybys completed July 2018. Still operational but no formal extended mission yet.
OSIRIS REx at Bennu – No sample collection yet. Sample return planned for 2023.
Hyabusa2 at Ryugu – No sample collection yet. To depart back to Earth December this year, arriving here in December 2020.
Dawn at Ceres – Retired in orbit, may crash some time in future.
BepiColumbo – Still 6 ½ years to Mercury. Heading for Earth flyby 6 April 2020.
Messenger – Crashed into Mercury in 2015
Parker Solar Probe – One approach to the Sun, heading for second Venus flyby later this year. 6 years to closest solar approach.
At Mars
InSight – Given up on deep hole for heat flux (same problem as Apollo). Only one Marsquake. Good for Martian weather.
Curiosity – Still doing loop-de-loops in the sandpit at the base of Mt Sharp. One wheel wearing thin.
Six (6) Mars orbiters are in operation: Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Maven, ExoMars, and also the Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan from India.
Five (5) future missions to Mars planned for launch all next year, one each from the United Arab Emirates, China, Japan, Europe + Russia, and USA.
At Venus
Venus Express – died in 2014
Akatsuki – the only Venus orbiter currently in operation
Moon and Beyond
Chang’e 2, launched on 1 October 2010, in deep space, probably still active
Chang’e 3, launched on 1 December 2013, rover dead, lander probably still active & contains UV space telescope
Chang’e 4, launched on 7 December 2018, rover dead, lander probably still active
Chang’e 5-T1, a lunar mission launched in 2014, still active in Lunar Orbit
Chang’e 5, a lunar sample-return mission scheduled for launch in December this year
Space Telescopes in Orbit
Hubble – Still very active
Chandra – Still active
SOHO – Still active and streaming images to the web
STEREO – Spacecraft “A” still active. Spacecraft “B” went into an uncontrolled spin in 2016.
Solar dynamics Observatory – Still active and streaming images to the web
Gaia – Awaiting third data release in 2020-2021.
WISE – out of refrigerant but still active looking for near-earth objects
NuSTAR – out of refrigerant but still active in soft X-rays
Spitzer – out of refrigerant but still active in two bands of near infrared
James Webb – Cost has blown out to 20 times original estimate, and launch date has been pushed back twelve times, scheduled for launch in 2021.
