Skip to content
Home › Library › Deep Space Tracker
LIVE

Deep Space Tracker

Every active spacecraft beyond Earth orbit, tracked in real time on an interactive 3D map of the Solar System. From Voyager 1 in interstellar space to Parker Solar Probe touching the Sun. Watch Europa Clipper cruise to Jupiter, JWST at L2, and Hera heading to asteroid Dimorphos. Distances refresh every 15 minutes, and the Deep Space Network panel every few seconds.

34 missions tracked · Voyager 1, 25.89 billion km farthest object · 9 DSN links active
Live countdownVoyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth at 10:16 UTC on 18 November 2026. Watch the countdown
Positions updated — ago · Next refresh in — · Data sources

Upcoming Mission Events

Deep Space Missions

34 tracked

Every spacecraft operating beyond Earth orbit: interplanetary probes, solar observatories, orbiters at Mars and the Moon, and interstellar travellers. They range from Juno at Jupiter and Lucy on its way to the Trojan asteroids, to BepiColombo arriving at Mercury, Hera arriving at the asteroid Dimorphos and the solar observatories Solar Orbiter and STEREO-A. Missions that have ended, such as Gaia and Akatsuki, are listed at the end. Positions refresh every 15 minutes. Open any mission for its live distance, speed and signal delay. See also: Earth orbit trackers, Mars rovers, upcoming launches, mission statistics, NASA, ESA, JAXA.

Interstellar space and the Kuiper Belt

Voyager 1
Active
The most distant human-made object. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and Saturn, crossed into interstellar space in August 2012 and still sends data home.
25.89 billion km23h 59m signalNASA
Voyager 2
Active
The only spacecraft to visit all four giant planets. Entered interstellar space in November 2018.
21.67 billion km20h 5m signalNASA
New Horizons
Active
First spacecraft to explore Pluto (2015) and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth (2019). Now in the outer solar system.
9.96 billion km9h 14m signalNASA

Jupiter, asteroids and comets

Juno
Active
NASA's Jupiter orbiter, in orbit since July 2016, studying the planet's deep interior, magnetic field and polar storms, and flying close to the moons Ganymede, Europa, Io and Thebe.
794.0 million km44.1 min signalNASA
Europa Clipper
Cruise
NASA's largest planetary spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's moon Europa to find out whether its ocean under the ice could support life. Due at Jupiter in April 2030, then 49 close flybys of Europa.
21.3 million km1.2 min signalNASA
JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)
Cruise
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, on its way to study the ocean moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Due at Jupiter in July 2031, it is set to orbit Ganymede from December 2034.
46.6 million km2.6 min signalESA
Lucy
Cruise
NASA's 12-year tour of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, ancient bodies that share Jupiter's orbit. Lucy has already flown past two main-belt asteroids and is due to reach its first Trojan in August 2027.
925.8 million km51.5 min signalNASA
Psyche
Cruise
NASA's mission to Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid that may be part of the core of an early planet. It flew past Mars in May 2026 and is due to arrive in August 2029.
245.4 million km13.6 min signalNASA
OSIRIS-APEX
Cruise
The spacecraft that brought asteroid Bennu's sample to Earth in 2023, now on its way to asteroid Apophis, which it is due to reach in June 2029, just after Apophis passes close to Earth.
86.9 million km4.8 min signalNASA
Hera
Cruise
ESA's planetary defence mission to the Didymos asteroid pair, where it will study how NASA's DART impact in 2022 changed the orbit of the small moon Dimorphos.
195.4 million km10.9 min signalESA
Hayabusa2
Cruise
JAXA's asteroid explorer, which brought samples of Ryugu to Earth in 2020. On an extended mission, it flew past asteroid Torifune in July 2026 and is due at the tiny 1998 KY26 in July 2031.
87.1 million km4.8 min signalJAXA
Tianwen-2
Active
China's first asteroid sample-return mission, flying alongside the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa before collecting samples and returning them to Earth in late 2027.
17.6 million km58.6s signalCNSA

Around the inner Solar System

Tesla Roadster (Starman)
Cruise
Elon Musk's cherry-red Tesla Roadster, with the spacesuited mannequin Starman at the wheel, launched on the first Falcon Heavy on 6 February 2018 into an orbit around the Sun that reaches out to Mars's distance.
120.1 million km6.7 min signalSpaceX
BepiColombo
Cruise
ESA and JAXA's mission to Mercury: two orbiters, ESA's MPO and JAXA's Mio, launched together in 2018 and carried to the innermost planet by nine planetary flybys and electric ion engines.
120.1 million km6.7 min signalESA/JAXA
Parker Solar Probe
Active
NASA's mission to touch the Sun. Parker Solar Probe is the closest and fastest spacecraft ever, passing 6.1 million km from the solar surface at about 692,000 km/h.
141.7 million km7.9 min signalNASA
Solar Orbiter
Active
ESA's Sun explorer, flying inside Mercury's orbit and tilting its path with Venus flybys to see the Sun's poles, which it imaged for the first time in 2025.
100.7 million km5.6 min signalESA
STEREO-A
Active
NASA's solar observatory in an orbit around the Sun just inside Earth's, giving a side-on view of the Sun and solar storms to complement observatories near Earth.
171.9 million km9.6 min signalNASA

Observatories at the Sun-Earth L1 and L2 points

SOHO
Active
The joint ESA and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory at Sun-Earth L1, launched in 1995. It watches the Sun around the clock and has found more than 5,000 comets.
1.26 million km4.2s signalESA/NASA
DSCOVR
Active
NOAA and NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory at Sun-Earth L1. Its EPIC camera photographs the whole sunlit face of Earth; NOAA ended its use for solar-storm warnings in June 2026.
1.45 million km4.8s signalNOAA/NASA
James Webb Space Telescope
Active
The largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched, a joint NASA, ESA and CSA observatory studying the early universe and other worlds in infrared light from Sun-Earth L2.
1.66 million km5.5s signalNASA/ESA/CSA
Euclid
Active
ESA's dark-universe telescope at Sun-Earth L2, mapping billions of galaxies across a third of the sky to show how dark matter and dark energy have shaped the cosmos.
1.51 million km5.0s signalESA
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Cruise
NASA's wide-field infrared telescope: a 2.4-metre mirror like Hubble's with about 100 times its infrared field of view. Launched on 30 August 2026 towards Sun-Earth L2.
1.34 million km4.5s signalNASA

Mars

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Active
NASA's high-resolution Mars orbiter, at Mars since March 2006. Its HiRISE camera shows the surface in remarkable detail, and it relays data from rovers on the ground.
199.1 million km11.1 min signalNASA
Mars Odyssey
Active
NASA's longest-serving Mars spacecraft, in orbit since October 2001. Odyssey found ice just below the surface and relays data from rovers on the ground.
199.1 million km11.1 min signalNASA
Mars Express
Active
Europe's first mission to Mars, in orbit since December 2003. Its stereo camera and radar have mapped the planet's surface, ice and atmosphere in detail.
199.1 million km11.1 min signalESA
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
Active
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, at Mars since October 2016, measuring the planet's atmosphere in fine detail and relaying data from rovers on the surface.
199.1 million km11.1 min signalESA/ROSCOSMOS
MMX (Martian Moons eXploration)
Cruise
JAXA's sample-return mission to Mars's moon Phobos: it is to land twice, collect at least 10 grams of its surface and bring the samples back to Earth in 2031.
6.64 million km22.1s signalJAXA

The Moon

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Active
NASA's Moon-mapping orbiter, at the Moon since June 2009, the longest-lived lunar orbiter. Its maps and images are used to choose landing sites for Artemis.
405,301 km1.4s signalNASA
Danuri (KPLO)
Active
South Korea's first Moon mission, the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, at the Moon since December 2022, imaging shadowed polar craters and scouting future landing sites.
404,017 km1.3s signalKARI

Missions that have ended

MAVEN
Ended
NASA's Mars upper-atmosphere orbiter, which showed how the solar wind strips away Mars's air. It fell silent on 6 December 2025 and NASA declared the mission over on 3 June 2026.
NASA
Gaia
Ended
ESA's star-mapping observatory, which charted nearly 2 billion stars from Sun-Earth L2 to build the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way. Observations ended in January 2025 and it was retired in March 2025.
99.5 million km5.5 min signalESA
Kepler Space Telescope
Ended
The planet-counter that changed astronomy: from an Earth-trailing solar orbit Kepler stared at one patch of sky and confirmed over 2,700 exoplanets, proving planets outnumber stars in our galaxy. Retired in 2018 when its fuel ran out; the spacecraft still drifts silently around the Sun.
267.6 million km14.9 min signalNASA
Spitzer Space Telescope
Ended
NASA's infrared Great Observatory — from an Earth-trailing solar orbit it revealed the dusty, hidden universe for 16 years, including the seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system. Decommissioned in January 2020; it continues to fall further behind Earth every year.
298.8 million km16.6 min signalNASA
Akatsuki
Ended
JAXA's Venus Climate Orbiter, which studied Venus's fast-spinning atmosphere from orbit from December 2015. Contact was lost in April 2024 and JAXA ended the mission in September 2025.
JAXA

Deep Space Network, live

Every 5s

NASA's three ground stations, Goldstone (California), Madrid (Spain) and Canberra (Australia), provide 24/7 communication with every deep-space mission. Each station houses multiple antennas (dishes) that simultaneously track different spacecraft.

Connecting to DSN feed…

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Voyager 1 right now?
Voyager 1 is 25.89 billion km from Earth, in interstellar space, and its radio signals take 23 h 59 min to reach us. On 18 November 2026 it becomes the first spacecraft one light-day from Earth.
Where is the Tesla Roadster right now?
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, with its Starman mannequin, is 120.1 million km from Earth and 210.5 million km from the Sun, on an orbit around the Sun that reaches beyond Mars.
How many spacecraft does this tracker follow?
34 missions beyond Earth orbit: 29 still at work, from lunar orbiters to the two Voyagers in interstellar space, and 5 that have ended but whose story and last position are kept here.
What is the Deep Space Network?
NASA's Deep Space Network is a set of giant radio antennas at three sites spaced around the globe, at Goldstone in California, near Madrid in Spain and near Canberra in Australia, so that at least one can always see any spacecraft. It talks to every NASA deep-space mission and many partner missions. The panel on this page shows which dishes are in contact with which spacecraft right now.
What are Lagrange points?
Lagrange points are places where the pull of the Sun and Earth balances a spacecraft's orbit so that it keeps pace with Earth. L1, between Earth and the Sun, is home to solar watchers such as SOHO. L2, on the far side of Earth, hosts the James Webb Space Telescope and Euclid, with the Roman Space Telescope arriving. Lucy is on its way to asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit at its L4 and L5 points.
What is the fastest spacecraft ever?
Parker Solar Probe, which reaches about 692,000 km/h (430,000 mph) at its closest passes to the Sun, fast enough to fly from London to Sydney in under 90 seconds. The fastest spacecraft page ranks every tracked probe by its speed right now.
What is planetary defence?
Planetary defence is the work of finding and, if ever needed, deflecting asteroids that could hit Earth. In 2022 NASA's DART spacecraft deliberately struck the small asteroid Dimorphos and changed its orbit. ESA's Hera spacecraft is arriving to study the result, and OSIRIS-APEX will meet the asteroid Apophis after it passes close to Earth on 13 April 2029.
How often are the positions updated?
Distances, speeds and signal delays refresh every 15 minutes, and the Deep Space Network panel every few seconds.

Related Pages

Mission Statistics
Sortable table of every deep-space mission: distance, speed, signal delay and agency, updated live.
Fastest Spacecraft Ever
Ranked by speed — from Parker Solar Probe at 690,000+ km/h to the Voyagers at the edge of interstellar space
Deep Space Timeline
Every launch, flyby and arrival, from Voyager in 1977 to the arrivals still to come.
Mars Rovers
Live position tracking and raw photos for Perseverance, Curiosity and every Mars rover
Earth Orbit Trackers
Track 32,000+ objects in real time — ISS, Starlink, GPS, debris and more
Launch Schedule
Upcoming launches including deep space missions — auto-updated with countdown timers
NASA
All NASA missions, spacecraft and launches — from deep space probes to Earth orbit
ESA
European Space Agency missions — BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, Hera, Gaia and more
JAXA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — Akatsuki, Hayabusa2 and Japan's interplanetary missions
Space Weather
Solar storms, geomagnetic activity and their impact on deep space missions
Spacecraft Profiles
Every active crewed and cargo spacecraft — specs, comparisons and tracking
Skylens AR
Point your phone at the sky and see satellites in augmented reality — no app needed