2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
Genesis
Collected solar-wind samples; capsule crash limited recovery but useful material was retrieved.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2001
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Sun–Earth L1 / Earth
- Category
- Solar-wind sample return
- Status
- Partial success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
Genesis flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of United States's work toward sun–earth l1 / earth. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Collected solar-wind samples; capsule crash limited recovery but useful material was retrieved.
Results
Collected solar-wind samples; capsule crash limited recovery but useful material was retrieved.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog