Mission-oriented innovation policies have major justice implications because they aim to radically transform our societies. Although research on these policies rarely engages with the notion of justice, this paper rests on the premise that it has implicitly provided insights that are relevant, and which could function as an entry point for a much-needed debate on mission justice. In response, we identify and explicate implicit considerations of distributive, procedural, recognitional, and restorative justice in the context of missions by means of a systematic literature review. While the scholarly debate on missions has indeed raised relevant questions regarding justice, we find that it has provided few meaningful answers. In particular, scholars seem to overlook restorative justice considerations that could help rectify historical wrongdoing. We highlight the imperative and ways in which scholars and policymakers can engage with justice more explicitly to formulate, implement, and evaluate missions for more just transitions.