🚀 Orbital Flythroughs
Interactive simulations of historic spacecraft missions, showing trajectories, gravity assists, and orbital mechanics from 1959 to present.
🌌 Combined Visualization
🌟 Outer Solar System Explorers
Voyager 1
Jupiter & Saturn flybys, now in interstellar space. Farthest human-made object.
NASA 1977 02Voyager 2 Grand Tour
Only spacecraft to visit all 4 outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
NASA 1977 03Pioneer 10
First Jupiter flyby, first to traverse the asteroid belt.
NASA 1972 04Pioneer 11
First Saturn flyby, used Jupiter gravity assist to cross the solar system.
NASA 1973 06Cassini-Huygens
4 gravity assists to Saturn. Huygens landed on Titan - most distant landing ever.
NASA/ESA 1997 07New Horizons
First Pluto flyby, then Arrokoth. Fastest launch velocity ever achieved.
NASA 2006 08Galileo
First Jupiter orbiter. VEEGA trajectory: Venus-Earth-Earth gravity assists.
NASA 1989 09Juno
Jupiter polar orbiter. First solar-powered spacecraft at Jupiter.
NASA 2011☀️ Inner Solar System
Mariner 10
First Mercury flyby. First to use gravity assist to reach another planet.
NASA 1973 10MESSENGER
First Mercury orbiter. 6 gravity assists over 7 years to slow down.
NASA 2004 19BepiColombo
9 gravity assists to Mercury - most complex sequence ever!
ESA/JAXA 2018 16Venera 9
First photos from another planet's surface! Venus orbiter and lander.
USSR 1975 11Parker Solar Probe
Humanity's closest approach to the Sun. 7 Venus flybys, 700,000 km/h.
NASA 2018☄️ Asteroids & Comets
Dawn
First to orbit two different bodies: asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
NASA 2007 13OSIRIS-REx
Asteroid Bennu sample return. 250g returned, now OSIRIS-APEX to Apophis.
NASA 2016 14Lucy
First mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. 3 Earth flybys, 8 asteroids.
NASA 2021 17Vega 1 & 2
Venus gravity assist to Halley's Comet. Twin Soviet missions.
USSR 1984 18Rosetta
First comet orbiter and lander (Philae). 4 gravity assists over 10 years.
ESA 2004