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Certainly worth a look:

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/200...ever-flown.html

[dvandorn]

Great list, Mongo!

A few updates, of course...

Japan: Kaguya, Hayabusa

ESA: SMART-1, Venus Express

China: Chang'e

U.S.A.: Messenger, New Horizons

For those last two -- OK, they haven't completed their missions, so we can't classify them automatically as "successes". But NH has already had a quite successful Jupiter encounter, and Messenger has done some nice work at Venus. I say we ought to count them -- and consider adding Rosetta to the ESA count, on the assumption that she'll hold together long enough to accomplish her extended mission.

I'm less certain about adding Dawn and Phoenix to America's talley; neither has actually done much data gathering yet. But they are in flight.

Anyone think of any more?

-the other Doug