Spacecraft
The machines that do the exploring for us — the great observatories, the crewed stations, and the probes that have carried humanity's reach to the edge of interstellar space.Track them in 3D →
Space Stations
Permanently crewed outposts in low Earth orbit.
Great Observatories
The telescopes that rewrote our picture of the universe.
Deep-Space Explorers
Robotic probes flung across the solar system — and out of it.
Launched 1977
Voyager 1
Humanity's farthest spacecraft — entered interstellar space in 2012, still transmitting from 24+ light-hours away.
Explore & track in 3D →Launched 1977
Voyager 2
The only craft to have visited Uranus and Neptune — crossed into interstellar space in 2018.
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Launched 2018
Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Sun-grazer — flies through the corona at 6.9 million km from the surface, faster than any human-made object.
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Launched 2018
Tesla Roadster (Starman)
Elon Musk's cherry-red Roadster — launched on the first Falcon Heavy in February 2018 with a spacesuited "Starman" at the wheel, now looping the Sun on a Mars-crossing orbit.
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Launched 2006
New Horizons
The fastest launch ever — swept past Pluto in 2015 and the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019, now exploring beyond 60 AU.
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Launched 1972
Pioneer 10
First craft to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter (1973). Silent since 2003, it coasts toward Aldebaran past 140 AU, carrying its famous golden plaque.
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Pioneer 11
First to fly past Saturn (1979), using Jupiter's gravity to get there. Last heard from in 1995, it drifts toward the constellation Aquila beyond 115 AU.
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