Orbiter

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

## Contents

* 1 Examples
* 1.1 Asteroids
* 1.2 Earth
* 1.3 Jupiter
* 1.4 Mars
* 1.5 Mercury
* 1.6 Moon
* 1.7 Saturn
* 1.8 Sun
* 1.9 Venus
* 2 See also
* 3 External links

## Examples

### 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
* Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
* 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
* Chandrayaan II

### Saturn

* Cassini-Huygens Mission

### Sun

* Pioneer 5
* Pioneer 6
* Pioneer 7
* Pioneer 8
* Pioneer 9
* Helios probes
* ISEE-3
* Ulysses
* WIND
* Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
* Advanced Composition Explorer
* Genesis
* STEREO probes

### Venus

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

## See also

* Satellite

## External links

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