Planetary Mission Press Kits

Agency-created press kits for different planetary mission events.

Inner Solar System Missions

• Lunar Surveyor A (May 1966)
• SMART-1 launch (June 2002)
• MESSENGER launch (August 2004) - Mercury Flyby 1 (January 2008) - Flyby 2 (October 2008) - Flyby 3 (September 2009) - Arrival (March 2011)
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / LCROSS launch (June 2009)
• GRAIL launch (August 2011)
• BepiColombo launch (Ariane 5) (October 2018)

Mars Missions

• Mariner 4 launch (October 1964)
• Mariner 6 and 7 launch (February 1969)
• Mariner 9 launch (April 1971) - arrival (October 1971)
• Viking (February 1975)
• Mars Observer (September 1992)
• Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Pathfinder, and Mars 96 launch (November 1996)
• Mars Pathfinder Landing (July 1997)
• Mars Global Surveyor arrival (September 1997)
• Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter launch (December 1998)
• Mars Climate Orbiter arrival (September 1999)
• Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2 landing (December 1999)
• 2001 Mars Odyssey launch (April 2001) - Arrival (October 2001)
• Mars Express 10th anniversary (June 2013)
• Mars Exploration Rover launches (June 2003) - Landings (January 2004)
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launch - Arrival (March 2006)
• Phoenix launch (August 2007) - Landing (May 2008)
• Mars Science Laboratory launch - Landing (July 2012)
• Mars Orbiter Mission launch (PSLV) (November 2013)
• MAVEN launch (Atlas V) (November 2013)
• ExoMars launch (March 2016) - Orbit insertion and Schiaparelli landing (October 2016)
• InSight launch (May 2018) - Landing (October 2018)
• Perseverance launch (July 2020) - Landing (February 2021)
• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (January 2021)
   

Outer Planets Missions

• Pioneer 10 launch (February 1972)
• Pioneer 11 launch (April 1973) - Jupiter flyby (November 1974) - Saturn flyby (August 1979)
• Voyager launch (August 1977)
• Galileo launch on STS-34 (October 1989) - Jupiter Arrival (December 1995) - End of Mission (September 2003)
• Cassini launch (October 1997) - Jupiter flyby (October 2000) - Saturn arrival (June 2004) - End of Mission (September 2017)
• New Horizons launch (January 2006) - Jupiter flyby (February 2007) - Pluto flyby (July 2015) - MU69 flyby (January 2019)
• Juno launch (August 2011) - Jupiter arrival lo-res and hi-res (July 2016)
• Europa Clipper launch (October 2024)

Small Bodies Missions

• Deep Space 1 launch (October 1998) - Braille flyby (July 1999)
• Stardust launch (February 1999) - Wild 2 flyby (January 2004) - Sample return (January 2006) - Tempel 1 flyby (February 2011)
• Genesis launch (July 2001) - Sample Return (September 2004)
• Deep Impact launch (January 2005) - Tempel 1 encounter (June 2005)
• Dawn launch (September 2007) - at Vesta (July 2011) - at Ceres (March 2015)
• OSIRIS-REx launch (August 2016)
• Lucy (October 2021)
• Double Asteroid Redirection Test launch (November 2021)
• Psyche (October 2023)

NASA News Archives (since 1990)

JPL List of Press Kits (since 1992)