Name the current science missions

[tomf]

I just set myself a challenge, to list all the active probes humanity has launched that are still actively returning data. Without looking anything up and excluding earth sensing satellites.

 

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Telesopes in earth orbit

• Hubble is still operating right?
• There is an active gamma telescope?
• and X ray Chandra
• w-map studying background radiation

Moon

• Is Clementine still mapping?
• One chinese lander/rover whose name I have forgotten

Mercury

• Bepi Columbo

Venus

• Nothing current

Mars

• Mars Reconacence orbiter
• Perseverance and Inginuity
• Curiosity
• The Chinese lander
• And is there an active European lander?

Jupiter

• Juno

Outer solar system

• Voyagers 1 + 2
• Pioneer 11/10
• New Horizons

Minor bodies

• Osiris is on its way home
• Rosetta?
• Lucy

The sun

• Parker

 

 

What did I miss/get wrong?

[kerbiloid]

Pioneers are gone in 1995 and 2003.

[BekfastDerp13]

Rosetta deliberately crashed into the asteroid that it was studying after the end of its mission.

[DDE]

  On 10/25/2021 at 1:54 PM, tomf said:

• There is an active gamma telescope?
• and X ray Chandra

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Spectr-RG lives

https://tass.ru/kosmos/11692015

[mikegarrison]

Arthur.

Sam is OK. Works for boys and girls. But Arthur is a pretty classic name.

[SunlitZelkova]

You are forgetting spacecraft that completed their primary mission and are operating on an extended one- Hayabusa2 and Chang'e 5's orbiter.

Also Akatsuki is operational in orbit around Venus currently.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is operational at the Moon. Contact was lost with Clementine in 1995.

[kerbiloid]

  On 10/25/2021 at 11:12 PM, mikegarrison said:

Arthur.

Sam is OK. Works for boys and girls. But Arthur is a pretty classic name.

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Why at all they ignore this setting in naming? There are more named sirs in it than named dwarves in LOTR.

(Reserve Green Knight for pentaborane rockets)