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Satellite madness

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    When it happened

  • Verena 9

    Verena 9

    Verena 9 went into orbit of the planet Venus. It transmitted photos of the surface and the planet.
  • Helios 2

    Helios 2

    Helios 2 completed a giant sucsess by traveling closest to the sun.
  • Viking 1

    Viking 1

    Viking 1 landed on Mars sucssesfully and took magnificant photos of the surface.
  • ISEE-3

    ISEE-3

    ISEE-3 was the first robot to orbit a libration point.
  • Voyager 1

    Voyager 1

    Voyager 1 was the first robot to take close up pictures of Jupiter's moons.
  • Voyager 1#2

    Voyager 1#2

    This robot was the first to take a picture of a volcano outside Earth. This picture was taken on Io, Jupiter's moon.
  • Pioneer 11

    Pioneer 11

    The first robot to fly by Saturn.
  • Venera 13

    Venera 13

    This robot was the first to have a soil analysis on another planet. This analysis was taken on Venus.
  • Pioneer 10

    Pioneer 10

    This was the first robot to cross the orbit of Neptune.
  • Vega 1

    Vega 1

    First robot to do balloon operations on another planet. It was operated on Venus.
  • ISEE-3

    ISEE-3

    This robot performed the first comet flyby. The comet was Giacobini-Zinner
  • Voyager 2

    Voyager 2

    This robot was the first to flyby Uranus.
  • Giotto

    Giotto

    This robot took the first close up images of a comet. The robot took pictures of the comet Halley.
  • Voyager 2

    Voyager 2

    This robot was the first to flyby Neptune.
  • Voyager 1 #3

    Voyager 1 #3

    This robot took the first pictures of our solar system beyond Neptune.
  • Hubble

    Hubble

    First image from a space-based telescope.
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    First robot to take close up pictures of asteroids.
  • Giotto

    Giotto

    This robot was the first to flyby Earth in deep space.
  • Hiten

    Hiten

    This robot was the first to use areobraking to reduce velocity.
  • Galileo #2

    Galileo #2

    This robot discovered an asteroid's moon. He was the first to discover one. He discovered Ida and Dactyl.
  • Galileo #3

    Galileo #3

    This robot made the first direct observations of a comet hitting a planet. The comet hit Jupiter.
  • Ulysses

    Ulysses

    This robot was the first to flyby the sun's poles.
  • Gallileo #4

    Gallileo #4

    This was the first robot to orbit a gas giant. The giant it orbited was Jupiter.
  • Spirit

    This robot broke the record of operating on another planet. It was operating on Mars.
  • Hayabusa

    Hayabusa

    This robot was the first to collect and return an asteroid sample.
  • Messenger

    Messenger

    This was the first robot to orbit Mercury.
  • Oppertunity

    Oppertunity

    This robot broke the record of the surface endurance record on this day.
  • Curiosity

    Curiosity

    This robot will be the largest ever operating on another planet.
  • Rosetta

    Rosetta

    This will be the first robot to land on a comet.
  • Dawn

    Dawn

    This robot will be the first to orbit a dwarf planet. It will orbit the planet Ceres.
  • New Horizions

    New Horizions

    This robot was the first to flyby Pluto.
  • Juno

    Juno

    This robot will be the first spacecraft solarpowered on Jupiter.