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Orbiter

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An orbiter is a space probe that orbits a planet or other astronomical object.

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Asteroids

  • NEAR Shoemaker (orbited 433 Eros, eventually landed but was not designed to do so)
  • Hayabusa (studied 25143 Itokawa, technically not an orbiter, but rather followed the asteroid in its orbit around the Sun)
  • Dawn (orbited 4 Vesta, now orbiting Ceres)

    • Earth

  • Space Shuttle orbiter
  • Buran-class shuttle
  • Soyuz
  • IXV
  • Shenzhou
  • LandSat

    • Jupiter

  • Galileo
  • Juno

    • Mars

  • Mariner 9
  • Mars 2
  • Mars 3
  • Mars 5
  • Viking 1
  • Viking 2
  • Phobos 2
  • Mars Global Surveyor
  • 2001 Mars Odyssey
  • Mars Express
  • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
  • Mangalyaan

    • Mercury

  • MESSENGER

    • Moon

  • Grail spacecraft (Ebb&Flow)
  • Luna 10 - first artificial satellite of the Moon
  • Explorer 33
  • Lunar Orbiter 1
  • Luna 11
  • Luna 12
  • Lunar Orbiter 2
  • Lunar Orbiter 3
  • Lunar Orbiter 4
  • Explorer 35
  • Lunar Orbiter 5
  • Luna 14
  • Luna 19
  • Explorer 49
  • Luna 22
  • Hiten
  • Clementine
  • Lunar Prospector
  • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
  • SMART-1
  • SELENE
  • Chang'e 1
  • Chang'e 2
  • Chandrayaan I

    • Saturn

  • Cassini-Huygens Mission

    • Sun

  • Pioneer 5
  • Pioneer 6
  • Pioneer 7
  • Pioneer 8
  • Pioneer 9
  • Helios probes
  • ISEE-3
  • Ulysses
  • WIND
  • SOHO
  • ACE
  • Genesis
  • STEREO probes

    • Venus

  • Venera 9
  • Venera 10
  • Pioneer Venus Orbiter
  • Venera 15
  • Venera 16
  • Magellan
  • Venus Express

    • References

    Orbiter Wikipedia
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