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Surveyor 3 on the Moon. The first image returned by Luna 3 showed the far side of the Moon. This is a list of robotic space probes that have flown by, impacted, orbited or landed on the Moon for the purpose of lunar exploration, as well as probes launched toward the Moon that failed to reach their target.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon. [ 8 ]
NASA determined that the spacecraft may have exploded, otherwise it impacted the Moon. [55] 52: Explorer 35 (AIMP-E) Explorer 35 (AIMP-E) 19 July 1967: Delta E1: NASA: Orbiter: Success Magnetospheric probe, studying the Moon and interplanetary space. Deactivated on 27 June 1973. [56] Presumed to have impacted the Moon during the 1970s. [57] 53 ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander stands more than 6 feet tall and nearly 12 feet wide. Powered by three solar panels, the spacecraft is designed to stick the landing when it makes it to the moon ...
Blue Ghost Mission 1 is a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace, launched on January 15, 2025.As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the mission aims to deliver ten scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to support future human exploration of the Moon under the broader Artemis program.
The Odysseus lander was NASA's latest effort to study promising lunar regions ahead of returning human crews to the surface as part of the Artemis program. NASA says the first crewed landings will ...
China launched its Chang’e 6 lunar probe Friday in a first-of-its-kind mission to bring back samples from the far side of the moon. ... Researchers funded by NASA received rare approval from ...
The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes.The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, successfully sent one spacecraft to fly by the Moon, and successfully sent one spacecraft to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.