Hello there, my first post.

I couldn't find any good overview anywhere of all ongoing space missions, so I made it myself, with links to the mission homepages and a little chart:
http://armchairastronautics.blogspot...ion-links.html
What do you think? Did I miss anything?

I like it. Haven't checked for completeness but it's a nice graphic to show people that there is more going in space than just a few communication satellites and the space shuttle.

I think Emily at the Planetary Society Blog posted a similar image a while ago, and she often posts such graphics on other topics, like all visited solar system small bodies. Perhaps something to keep an eye on, if you didn't do so already.

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It's a good graphic - I was looking at it thinking "Oh - he's missed Ster.....oh, no, there they are.. Ahh - he missed Stardu...oops - no, it's there"

Is Stardust still out there?

Anyway, it's a good list. I was just thinking myself the other day that I could do with a summary of what is current in the heliosphere.

Yes, it's on its way to comet Tempel 1, the one that Deep Impact made a deep impact in. Mission NExT

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Thank you, all!
As for Emily, I have and she has indicated interest.
It's probably a bit difficult to find a specific mission on the graphic if you don't already know its approximate location, but this way it invites you to, well, explore. I hope.

I somehow managed to post a thumb to an older version, the new and improved one is here:



with added Asteroid goodness and the listed missions on the right sorted alphabetically (cough).

Oh, and does anybody know where to get information on a spacecraft's orbit if neither Solar System Simulator nor NASA Horizons database know it?

@djellison:
If you are Doug Ellison from unmannedspaceflight, I was thinking that the graphic might be a good contribution to your site, I just can't figure out where to put it. You have forums for every single planet and even some moons, but none for the grand sweeping overview perspective like this. Which is probably because there isn't such a lot going around from that perspective (why I made the effort in the first place), OK. A hint, maybe?

Is it going to be collecting samples from it like it did at Wild 2? Won't that kind of wreck the purity of the sampling?

It can't, not for returning them anyway. The sample container was returned to Earth. NExT is "simply" clever usage of the bus part of Stardust, which had fulfilled its purpose. See:

http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/

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More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft) And a similar sample return mission bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)

I might be. Who's asking.

Exploration Strategy sub-forum perhaps.

I see. Cunning.