| Probes to point L2, comets and asteroids | |||||
| Brugge | Gunter | N | |||
| Probe | Country | Year | Weight | Note | |
| point L2 : | |||||
| WMAP | USA | 2001 | 840 | orbiter | |
| Herschel | EU | 2009 | 3 400 | orbiter, diameter 3.5 m, infrared rad. | |
| Planck | EU | 2009 | 1 950 | orbiter, cosmic radiation | |
| Gaia | EU | 2013 | 2 000 | orbiter, position differencies | |
| JWST | USA+EU | 2021 | 9 000 | orbiter, diameter 6.5 m, infrared | |
| comets : | |||||
| ISEE 3, ICE | USA | 1978 | 470 | flyby, Giacobini-Zinner | |
| Vega 1 | USSR | 1984 | 4920 | flyby, Halley | |
| Vega 2 | USSR | 1984 | 4920 | flyby, Halley | |
| Sakigake | Japan | 1985 | 140 | flyby, Halley | |
| Giotto | EU | 1985 | 960 | flyby, Halley | |
| Suisei | Japan | 1985 | 140 | flyby, Halley | |
| Deep Space 1 | USA | 1998 | 490 | flyby, Borelly | |
| Stardust | USA | 1999 | 380 | comet coma sample return, Wild-2 | |
| Countour | USA | 2002 | 1000 | failure | |
| Rosetta | EU | 2004 | 3000 | orbiter + lander, Churyumov Geras. | |
| Deep Impact | USA | 2005 | 1020 | flyby + impactor, Tempel 1 | |
| asteroids : | |||||
| NEAR Shoemaker | USA | 1996 | 820 | orbiter and lander, Eros | |
| Hayabusa | Japan | 2003 | 530 | return with samples, Itokawa | |
| Dawn | USA | 2007 | 1220 | orbiter Vesta 2011, Ceres 2015 | |
| Hayabusa 2 | Japan | 2014 | 600 | return with samples, 1999 JU3 | |
| OSIRIS-REx | USA | 2016 | 1 530 | return with sample, Bennu | |
| Lucy | USA | 2021 | 1 550 | fly by Jupiter trojans | |
| DART | USA | 2021 | 500 | impactor to Didymos | |