Here's my map of all active and planned Solar System Missions and their destinations as of October 1st 2023.
Two new missions have launched in September: The Japanese SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) lunar lander mission together with the XRISM X-ray telescope, and the Indian Aditya-L1 solar observatory. Both are cruising to their destinations and will arrive in December, or Janary next year.
OSIRIS-REx has delivered its sample probe to Earth and will continue as OSIRIS-APEx on to a flyby of Asteroid Apophis. Meanwhile, Juno has its 55th perijove at Jupiter.
Two more missions will likely launch this or next month: The Psyche mission to the metal asteroid of the same name, and the first commercial lunar payload services mission (CLPS) Intuitive Machines IM-1. Finally, Lucy willl make the first flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh, first destination of its tour around the asteroid belt.
Data, images and documentation are available on my space exploration history GitHub repository and the associated website.
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