# List of lunar probes

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 crewed Apollo missions are listed at List of missions to the Moon.
Major programs encompassing several probes include:
* Luna program — USSR Lunar exploration (1959–1976)
* Ranger program — US Lunar hard-landing probes (1961–1965)
* Zond program — USSR Lunar exploration (1964–1970)
* Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966–1968)
* Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967)
* Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes (1970–1973)
* Chang'e program - China Lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecrafts (2004-present)
* Chandrayaan programme - Indian Lunar Exploration Programme incorporates Lunar orbiters, impactor, soft landers and rover spacecrafts (2008-present)Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram on the Moon imaged by rover Pragyan 15 meters away

## Key

Colour key:
    – Mission or flyby completed successfully (or partially successfully)    – Failed or cancelled mission  – Mission en route or in progress (including mission extensions)  – Planned mission
* $^†$ means "tentatively identified", as classified by NASA . These are Cold War-era Soviet missions, mostly failures, about which few or no details have been officially released. The information given may be speculative.
* Date is the date of:
   * closest encounter (flybys)
   * impact (impactors)
   * orbital insertion to end of mission, whether planned or premature (orbiters)
   * landing to end of mission, whether planned or premature (landers)
   * launch (missions that never got underway due to failure at or soon after launch)
    In cases which do not fit any of the above, the event to which the date refers is stated. Note that as a result of this scheme missions are not always listed in order of launch.
* In the case of flybys (such as gravity assists) that are incidental to the main mission, "success" indicates the successful completion of the flyby, not necessarily that of the main mission.

## Lunar probes by date
### 1958–1960

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| Pioneer 0 | Pioneer 0 | DoD | 17 August 1958 | orbiter | failure | first attempted launch beyond Earth orbit; launch vehicle failure; maximum altitude 16 km | ABLE1 |
| Luna E-1 No.1 | Luna E-1 No.1 | USSR | 23 September 1958 | impactor | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Pioneer 1 | Pioneer 1 | NASA/ DoD | 11 October 1958 | orbiter | failure | second stage premature shutdown; maximum altitude 113,800 km; some data returned | 1958-007A |
| Luna E-1 No.2 | Luna E-1 No.2 | USSR | 12 October 1958 | impactor | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Pioneer 2 | Pioneer 2 | NASA/ STL | 8 November 1958 | orbiter | failure | third stage failure; maximum altitude 1,550 km; some data returned | PION2 |
| Luna E-1 No.3 | Luna E-1 No.3 | USSR | 4 December 1958 | impactor | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Pioneer 3 | Pioneer 3 | NASA/ DoD | 6 December 1958 | flyby | failure | fuel depletion; maximum altitude 102,360 km; some data returned | 1958-008A |
| Luna 1 | Luna 1 | USSR | 4 January 1959 | flyby | partial success | first spacecraft in the vicinity of the Moon (flew within 5,995 km, but probably an intended impactor) | 1959-012A |
| Pioneer 4 | Pioneer 4 | NASA/ DoD | 4 March 1959 | flyby | partial success | achieved distant flyby; first US probe to enter solar orbit | 1959-013A |
| Luna E-1A No.1 | Luna E-1A No.1 | USSR | 18 June 1959 | impactor | failure | failed to reach Earth orbit | |
| Luna 2 | Luna 2 | USSR | 14 September 1959 | impactor | success | first impact on Moon | 1959-014A |
| Pioneer P-1 | Pioneer P-1 | NASA | 24 September 1959? | orbiter? | failure | designation sometimes given to a failed launch or launchpad explosion during testing; conflicting information between sources | |
| Luna 3 | Luna 3 | USSR | 6 October 1959 | flyby | success | first images from the lunar farside | 1959-008A |
| Pioneer P-3 | Pioneer P-3 | NASA | 26 November 1959 | orbiter | failure | disintegrated shortly after launch | PIONX |
| Luna 1960A$^†$ | Luna 1960A$^†$ | USSR | 15 April 1960 | flyby | failure | failed to attain correct trajectory | |
| Luna 1960B$^†$ | Luna 1960B$^†$ | USSR | 16 April 1960 | flyby | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Pioneer P-30 | Pioneer P-30 | NASA | 25 September 1960 | orbiter | failure | second stage failure; failed to reach Earth orbit | PIONY |
| Pioneer P-31 | Pioneer P-31 | NASA | 15 December 1960 | orbiter | failure | first stage failure | PIONZ |

### 1962–1965

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| Ranger 3 | Ranger 3 | NASA | 28 January 1962 | impactor | failure | missed target | 1962-001A |
| Ranger 4 | Ranger 4 | NASA | 26 April 1962 | impactor | failure | hit the lunar farside; no data returned | 1962-012A |
| Ranger 5 | Ranger 5 | NASA | 21 October 1962 | impactor | failure | power failure, missed target | 1962-055A |
| Sputnik 25 | Sputnik 25 | USSR | 5 January 1963 | lander | failure | failed to escape Earth orbit | 1963-001A |
| Luna E-6 No.3$^†$ | Luna E-6 No.3$^†$ | USSR | 2 February 1963 | lander? | failure | failed to reach Earth orbit | |
| Luna 4 | Luna 4 | USSR | 5 April 1963 | lander? | failure | missed target, became Earth satellite | 1963-008B |
| Ranger 6 | Ranger 6 | NASA | 2 February 1964 | impactor | partial success | impacted, but no pictures returned due to power failure | 1964-007A |
| Luna 1964A$^†$ | Luna 1964A$^†$ | USSR | 21 March 1964 | lander | failure | failed to reach Earth orbit | |
| Ranger 7 | Ranger 7 | NASA | 31 July 1964 | impactor | success | returned pictures until impact | 1964-041A |
| Ranger 8 | Ranger 8 | NASA | 20 February 1965 | impactor | success | returned pictures until impact | 1965-010A |
| Cosmos 60 | Cosmos 60 | USSR | 12 March 1965 | lander | failure | failed to leave Earth orbit | 1965-018A |
| Ranger 9 | Ranger 9 | NASA | 24 March 1965 | impactor | success | TV broadcast of live pictures until impact | 1965-023A |
| Luna 1965A$^†$ | Luna 1965A$^†$ | USSR | 10 April 1965 | lander | failure | failed to reach Earth orbit? | |
| Luna 5 | Luna 5 | USSR | 12 May 1965 | lander | failure | crashed into Moon | 1965-036A |
| Luna 6 | Luna 6 | USSR | 8 June 1965 | lander | failure | missed Moon | 1965-044A |
| Zond 3 | Zond 3 | USSR | 20 July 1965 | flyby | success | possibly originally intended as a Mars probe, but target changed after launch window missed | 1965-056A |
| Luna 7 | Luna 7 | USSR | 7 October 1965 | lander | failure | crashed into Moon | 1965-077A |
| Luna 8 | Luna 8 | USSR | 6 December 1965 | lander | failure | crashed into Moon | 1965-099A |

### 1966–1967

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| Luna 9 | Luna 9 | USSR | 3 February 1966 – 6 February 1966 | lander | success | first soft landing; first images from the surface | 1966-006A |
| Cosmos 111 | Cosmos 111 | USSR | 1 March 1966 | orbiter | failure | failed to escape Earth orbit | 1966-017A |
| Luna 10 | Luna 10 | USSR | 3 April 1966 – 30 May 1966 | orbiter | success | first artificial satellite of the Moon | 1966-027A |
| Luna 1966A$^†$ | Luna 1966A$^†$ | USSR | 30 April 1966 | orbiter | failure | failed to reach Earth orbit | |
| Surveyor 1 | Surveyor 1 | NASA | 2 June 1966 | lander | success | first US soft landing; Surveyor program performed various tests in support of forthcoming human landings | 1966-045A |
| Explorer 33 | Explorer 33 | NASA | 1 July 1966 – 15 September 1971 | orbiter | partial success | studied interplanetary plasma, cosmic rays, magnetic fields and solar X rays; failed to attain lunar orbit as intended, but achieved mission objectives from Earth orbit | 1966-058A |
| Lunar Orbiter 1 | Lunar Orbiter 1 | NASA | 14 August 1966 – 29 October 1966 | orbiter | success | photographic mapping of lunar surface; intentionally impacted after completion of mission | 1966-073A |
| Luna 11 | Luna 11 | USSR | 28 August 1966 – 1 October 1966 | orbiter | success | gamma-ray and X-ray-based observations of Moon's composition; gravity, radiation and meteorite studies | 1966-078A |
| Surveyor 2 | Surveyor 2 | NASA | 23 September 1966 | lander | failure | crashed into Moon | 1966-084A |
| Luna 12 | Luna 12 | USSR | 25 October 1966 – 19 January 1967 | orbiter | success | lunar surface photography | 1966-094A |
| Lunar Orbiter 2 | Lunar Orbiter 2 | NASA | 10 November 1966 – 11 October 1967 | orbiter | success | photographic mapping of lunar surface; intentionally impacted after completion of mission | 1966-100A |
| Luna 13 | Luna 13 | USSR | 24 December 1966 | lander | success | TV pictures of lunar landscape; soil measurements | 1966-116A |
| Lunar Orbiter 3 | Lunar Orbiter 3 | NASA | 8 February 1967 – 9 October 1967 | orbiter | success | photographic mapping of lunar surface; intentionally impacted after completion of mission | 1967-008A |
| Surveyor 3 | Surveyor 3 | NASA | 20 April 1967 – 4 May 1967 | lander | success | various studies, primarily in support of forthcoming human landings. First lander visited by a later crewed mission (Apollo 12) that even brought its components back to Earth. | 1967-035A |
| Lunar Orbiter 4 | Lunar Orbiter 4 | NASA | May–October 1967 | orbiter | success | lunar photographic survey | 1967-041A |
| Explorer 35 | Explorer 35 | NASA | July 1967 – 24 June 1973 | orbiter | success | studies of interplanetary plasma, magnetic fields, energetic particles and solar X rays | 1967-070A |
| Surveyor 4 | Surveyor 4 | NASA | 17 July 1967 | lander | failure | crashed into Moon | 1967-068A |
| Lunar Orbiter 5 | Lunar Orbiter 5 | NASA | 5 August 1967 – 31 January 1968 | orbiter | success | lunar photographic survey; intentionally impacted after completion of mission | 1967-075A |
| Surveyor 5 | Surveyor 5 | NASA | 11 September 1967 – 17 December 1967 | lander | success | various studies, primarily in support of forthcoming human landings | 1967-084A |
| Zond 1967A$^†$ | Zond 1967A$^†$ | USSR | 28 September 1967 | | failure | lunar capsule test flight; launch failure | |
| Surveyor 6 | Surveyor 6 | NASA | 10 November 1967 – 14 December 1967 | lander | success | various studies, primarily in support of forthcoming human landings | 1967-112A |
| Zond 1967B$^†$ | Zond 1967B$^†$ | USSR | 22 November 1967 | | failure | lunar capsule test flight; launch failure | |

### 1968–1970

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| Surveyor 7 | Surveyor 7 | NASA | 10 January 1968 – 21 February 1968 | lander | success | various studies, primarily in support of forthcoming human landings; fifth and final Surveyor mission to achieve soft landing | 1968-001A |
| Luna 1968A$^†$ | Luna 1968A$^†$ | USSR | 7 February 1968 | orbiter? | failure | failed to reach Earth orbit | |
| Zond 4 | Zond 4 | USSR | 2 March 1968 (launch) | | | lunar programme flight test, directed away from Moon, either intentionally or unintentionally | 1968-013A |
| Luna 14 | Luna 14 | USSR | 10 April 1968 – ? | orbiter | success | tests of radio communications technologies; lunar mascon studies | 1968-027A |
| Zond 1968A$^†$ | Zond 1968A$^†$ | USSR | 23 April 1968 | flyby? | failure | launch failure | |
| Zond 5 | Zond 5 | USSR | 18 September 1968 | flyby | success | bioscience experiments; returned to soft landing on Earth | 1968-076A |
| Zond 6 | Zond 6 | USSR | 14 November 1968 | flyby | success | cosmic-ray, micrometeoroid and bioscience studies; returned to soft landing on Earth | 1968-101A |
| Zond 1969A$^†$ | Zond 1969A$^†$ | USSR | 20 January 1969 | flyby | failure | launch aborted | |
| Luna 1969A$^†$ | Luna 1969A$^†$ | USSR | 19 February 1969 | lander | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| | Lunokhod 201$^†$ | USSR | 19 February 1969 | rover | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Zond L1S-1$^†$ | Zond L1S-1$^†$ | USSR | 21 February 1969 | orbiter | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Luna 1969B$^†$ | Luna 1969B$^†$ | USSR | 15 April 1969 | sample return? | failure | launch failure | |
| Luna 1969C$^†$ | Luna 1969C$^†$ | USSR | 14 June 1969 | sample return | failure | launch failure | |
| Zond L1S-2$^†$ | Zond L1S-2$^†$ | USSR | 3 July 1969 | orbiter | failure | launch failure | |
| Luna 15 | Luna 15 | USSR | 21 July 1969 | sample return? | failure? | completed 52 lunar orbits then crash-landed | 1969-058A |
| Zond 7 | Zond 7 | USSR | 11 August 1969 | flyby | success | returned to soft landing on Earth | 1969-067A |
| Cosmos 300 | Cosmos 300 | USSR | 23 September 1969 | sample return | failure | failed to escape Earth orbit | 1969-080A |
| Cosmos 305 | Cosmos 305 | USSR | 22 October 1969 | sample return | failure | failed to escape Earth orbit | 1969-092A |
| Luna 1970A$^†$ | Luna 1970A$^†$ | USSR | 6 February 1970 | sample return? | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Luna 1970B$^†$ | Luna 1970B$^†$ | USSR | 19 February 1970 | orbiter? | failure | launch vehicle failure | |
| Luna 16 | Luna 16 | USSR | 20 September 1970 | sample return | success | first robotic sample return | 1970-072A |
| Zond 8 | Zond 8 | USSR | 24 October 1970 | flyby | success | returned to soft landing on Earth | 1970-088A |
| Luna 17 | Luna 17 | USSR | 17 November 1970 – 4 October 1971 | lander | success | deployed rover | 1970-095A |
| | Lunokhod 1 | USSR | 17 November 1970 – 4 October 1971 | rover | success | first robotic rover; travelled over 10 km | 1970-095D |

### 1971–1976

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| Luna 18 | Luna 18 | USSR | 11 September 1971 | lander/sample return? | failure | crashed into Moon | 1971-073A |
| Luna 19 | Luna 19 | USSR | 3 October 1971 – October 1972 | orbiter | success | | 1971-082A |
| Luna 20 | Luna 20 | USSR | 21 February 1972 | sample return | success | second successful robotic sample return | 1972-007A |
| Soyuz L3$^†$ | Soyuz L3$^†$ | USSR | 23 November 1972 | orbiter | failure | launch failure | |
| Luna 21 | Luna 21 | USSR | 15 January 1973 – May 1973? | lander | success | deployed rover | 1973-001A |
| | Lunokhod 2 | USSR | 15 January 1973 – May 1973? | rover | success | second robotic rover; travelled 37 km | 1973-001A |
| Explorer 49 | Explorer 49 | NASA | 15 June 1973 – June 1975 | orbiter | success | radio astronomy observations; last US lunar mission until 1994 | 1973-039A |
| Mariner 10 | Mariner 10 | NASA | November 1973 | flyby | success | en route to Venus and Mercury | 1973-085A |
| Luna 22 | Luna 22 | USSR | 2 June 1974 – November 1974 | orbiter | success | | 1974-037A |
| Luna 23 | Luna 23 | USSR | 6 November 1974 | sample return | failure | damaged on landing, sample return failed | 1974-084A |
| Luna 1975A$^†$ | Luna 1975A$^†$ | USSR | 16 October 1975 | sample return | failure | failed to reach Earth orbit | |
| Luna 24 | Luna 24 | USSR | 18 August 1976 | sample return | success | third and final successful sample return in Luna programme | 1976-081A |

### 1983–1998

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| ICE (formerly ISEE-3) | ICE (formerly ISEE-3) | NASA | 22 December 1983 | flyby | success | gravity assist en route to comet flybys | 1978-079A |
| Hiten | Hiten | ISAS | March 1990 – October 1991 | flyby (approached 10 times) | success | in Moon-crossing Earth orbit from January 1990, later transferred to lunar orbit after failure of Hagoromo; intentionally impacted on Moon at end of mission; first Japanese probe (and non-USSR/US probe) to enter lunar orbit | 1990-007A |
| Hiten | Hiten | ISAS | February 1992 – April 1993 | orbiter | success | in Moon-crossing Earth orbit from January 1990, later transferred to lunar orbit after failure of Hagoromo; intentionally impacted on Moon at end of mission; first Japanese probe (and non-USSR/US probe) to enter lunar orbit | 1990-007A |
| | Hagoromo | ISAS | March 1990 | orbiter | failure | released by Hiten into lunar orbit, but transmitter failed and orbit never confirmed | 1990-007A |
| GEOTAIL | GEOTAIL | ISAS / NASA | September 1992 – November 1994 | flyby (approached 14 times) | success | gravity assist en route magnetotail around L2 / finally deployed into high Earth orbit | |
| WIND | WIND | NASA | 1 December 1994 and 27 December 1994 | flyby | success | gravity assists en route to Earth–Sun L1 Lagrangian point | 1994-071A |
| Clementine | Clementine | BMDO/ NASA | February – June 1994 | orbiter | partial success | lunar and Earth observations and component testing; planned Geographos flyby failed | 1994-004A |
| HGS-1 | HGS-1 | Hughes Global Services | May/June 1998 | Flyby (orbital correction) | | errant communications satellite, flew within 6,200 kilometers of Moon during orbit correction manoeuvres | 1997-086A |
| Lunar Prospector | Lunar Prospector | NASA | January 1998 – July 1999 | orbiter | success | lunar surface mapping; intentionally impacted into polar crater at end of mission to test for liberation of water vapour (not detected) | 1998-001A |
| Nozomi | Nozomi | ISAS | 24 September 1998 | flyby | success | gravity assists on planned mission to Mars | 1998-041A |
| Nozomi | Nozomi | ISAS | 18 December 1998 | flyby | success | gravity assists on planned mission to Mars | 1998-041A |

### 2001–2009

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| WMAP | WMAP | NASA | 30 July 2001 | flyby | success | gravity assist en route to Earth–Sun L2 Lagrangian point | 2001-027A |
| SMART-1 | SMART-1 | ESA | 13 November 2004 – 3 September 2006 | orbiter | success | technology testbed and lunar geological studies; intentionally impacted at end of mission; first European probe to orbit the Moon | 2003-043C |
| STEREO A | STEREO A | NASA | 15 December 2006 | flyby | success | gravity assist to enter a heliocentric orbit | 2006-047A |
| STEREO B | STEREO B | NASA | 15 December 2006 and 21 January 2007 | flyby | success | gravity assists to enter a heliocentric orbit | 2006-047B |
| SELENE (Kaguya) | SELENE (Kaguya) | JAXA | 3 October 2007 – 10 June 2009 | orbiter | success | mineralogical, geographical, magnetic and gravitational observations | 2007-039A |
| | Okina (Relay Star) | JAXA | 9 October 2007 – 12 February 2009 | Kaguya subsatellite | success | relay for Kaguya's Far Side operations | 2007-039A |
| | Ouna (VRAD) | JAXA | 12 October 2007 – 29 June 2009 | Kaguya subsatellite | success (still in orbit) | Very Long Baseline Interferometry | 2007-039A |
| Chang'e 1 | Chang'e 1 | CNSA | 5 November 2007 – 1 March 2009 | orbiter | success | 3D lunar mapping and geological observations; first Chinese probe to orbit a body besides Earth; impacted to collect data in preparation for future soft landings | 2007-051A |
| Chandrayaan-1 | Chandrayaan-1 | ISRO | 8 November 2008 – 29 August 2009 | orbiter | success | high resolution 3D mapping, search water in polar region (first detection of water) and spectral analysis of the Moon's surface and inner compositions | 2008-052A Archived 2014-04-12 at the Wayback Machine |
| | Moon Impact Probe (MIP) | ISRO | 14 November 2008 | impactor | success | test and demonstrate targeting technologies for future soft landings, scientific observation from close range | |
| Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | NASA | 23 June 2009 – | orbiter | in orbit | survey of lunar resources and identification of possible landing sites | 2009-031A |
| LCROSS | LCROSS | NASA | 23 June 2009 | flyby | success | consisted of the Shepherding Spacecraft and Centaur upper stage (Earth Departure Upper Stage) | 2009-031B |
| | LCROSS Shepherding Spacecraft | NASA | 9 October 2009 | impactor | success | analyzed upper-stage impact plume for traces of water liberated from the Moon's surface | 2009-031B |
| | LCROSS Earth Departure Upper Stage | NASA | 9 October 2009 | impactor | success | analyzed upper-stage impact plume for traces of water liberated from the Moon's surface | 2009-031B |

### 2010–2019

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| Chang'e 2 | Chang'e 2 | CNSA | 1 October 2010 – 27 August 2011 | orbiter | success | capture high resolution images of the landing zone for Chang'e 3, measure and analyze composition of the surface. Then sent to L2 and on to an asteroid flyby. | 2010-050A |
| ARTEMIS P1 | ARTEMIS P1 | NASA | 2 July 2011 – | orbiter | in orbit | to study the effect of the solar wind on the lunar surface | 2007-004B |
| ARTEMIS P2 | ARTEMIS P2 | NASA | 17 July 2011 – | orbiter | in orbit | to study the effect of the solar wind on the lunar surface | 2007-004C |
| GRAIL A (Ebb) | GRAIL A (Ebb) | NASA | 31 December 2011 – 17 December 2012 | orbiter | success | mapped the Moon's gravitational field; intentionally impacted at end of mission | 2011-046A |
| GRAIL B (Flow) | GRAIL B (Flow) | NASA | 1 January 2012 – 12 December 2012 | orbiter | success | mapped the Moon's gravitational field; intentionally impacted at end of mission | 2011-046B |
| LADEE | LADEE | NASA | 6 September 2013 – 8 April 2014 | orbiter | success | designed to study the lunar exosphere and dust. Intentionally impacted on far side of Moon. | 2013-047A |
| Chang'e 3 | Chang'e 3 | CNSA | 1 December 2013 - | lander | in progress | soft-landed on the Moon and deployed Yutu rover on 14 December 2013; one functioning instrument as of 1 September 2020 | 2013-070A |
| | Yutu | CNSA | 1 December 2013 – 2016? | rover | success | survived multiple lunar nights, became immobile 42 days after landing | 2013-070C |
| Chang'e 5-T1 | Chang'e 5-T1 | CNSA | 28 October 2014 | flyby | success | Technology demonstrator for Chang'e 5 mission; after separating the Xiaofei reentry capsule, the service module eventually entered lunar orbit to conduct rendezvous exercises | 2014-065A |
| Chang'e 5-T1 | Chang'e 5-T1 | CNSA | 10 January 2015 – | orbiter | in progress | Technology demonstrator for Chang'e 5 mission; after separating the Xiaofei reentry capsule, the service module eventually entered lunar orbit to conduct rendezvous exercises | 2014-065A |
| | Manfred Memorial Moon Mission | Luxspace | October 2014 | flyby/impactor (post mission) | success | privately funded payload attached to a Long March 3C rocket third stage; its dosimeter measured ionizing radiation in space. Unintentional Impact on 4 March 2022. | |
| TESS | TESS | NASA | 17 May 2018 | flyby | success | gravity assist to achieve a lunar resonant high Earth orbit | 2018-038A |
| Queqiao | Queqiao | CNSA | 25 May 2018 | flyby | success | Used a gravity assist en route to the Earth–Moon L$_2$ Lagrangian point. Currently serving as relay for Chang'e 4 lander and rover on the far side. | 2018-045A |
| Longjiang-1 | Longjiang-1 | HIT | 25 May 2018 | orbiter | failure | malfunctioned after launch, became flyby | 2018-045B |
| Longjiang-2 | Longjiang-2 | HIT | 25 May 2018 – 31 July 2019 | orbiter | success | Very Long Baseline Interferometry, in orbit until 31 July 2019 when it was deliberately directed to crash onto the Moon. | 2018-045C |
| Chang'e 4 | Chang'e 4 | CNSA | 7 December 2018 – | lander | in progress | First spacecraft to soft land on the far side of the Moon. | 2018-103A |
| | Yutu-2 | CNSA | 7 December 2018 – | rover | active | | |
| Beresheet | Beresheet | SpaceIL | 22 February 2019 – 11 April 2019 | lander | failure | First Israeli and privately funded lunar lander. Entered lunar orbit on 4 April, hard-landed on 11 April 2019. | 2019-009B |
| Chandrayaan-2 | Chandrayaan-2 | ISRO | 22 July 2019 – | orbiter | in orbit | observe lunar geography and mineralogy, search for water molecules | 2019-042A |
| | Vikram | ISRO | 6 September 2019 | lander | failure | crashed due to a software glitch | |
| | Pragyan | ISRO | 7 September 2019 | rover | not deployed | was to be deployed from Vikram | |

### 2020–present

| Spacecraft | Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref |
| Chang'e 5 | Chang'e 5 | CNSA | 16 December 2020 | sample return | success | Retrieved 1.731 kg of lunar sample and returned it to Earth | 2020-087A |
| | Chang'e 5 Lander | CNSA | 30 November 2020 - 11 December 2020 | sample return | success | Obtained lunar sample and placed on ascent vehicle; conducted radar studies of underground structure | 2020-087A |
| | Chang'e 5 Ascender | CNSA | 3 December 2020 - 7 December 2020 | sample return | success | Transferred lunar sample onto return capsule via lunar-orbit rendezvous; intentionally deorbited | 2020-087A |
| | Chang'e 5 Orbiter | CNSA | 9 September 2021 | flyby | success | Extended mission following separation of Chang'e 5 Returner; returned from Sun-Earth L$_1$ to conduct lunar flyby | 2020-087A |
| | Chang'e 5 Orbiter | CNSA | Late 2021 - | orbiter | in orbit | First spacecraft to utilize Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) about Earth-Moon L$_1$ and L$_2$ | 2020-087A |
| CAPSTONE | CAPSTONE | NASA | 14 November 2022 | orbiter | in orbit | Lunar orbiting CubeSat that will test and verify the calculated orbital stability planned for the Gateway space station. | CAPSTONE |
| Artemis 1 Orion MPCV CM-002 | Artemis 1 Orion MPCV CM-002 | NASA | 21 November 2022 | flyby | success | Uncrewed test of the Orion spacecraft in lunar flyby and DRO orbit. | ARTEMIS-1 |
| Artemis 1 Orion MPCV CM-002 | Artemis 1 Orion MPCV CM-002 | NASA | 25 November 2022 | orbiter | success | Uncrewed test of the Orion spacecraft in lunar flyby and DRO orbit. | ARTEMIS-1 |
| Artemis 1 Orion MPCV CM-002 | Artemis 1 Orion MPCV CM-002 | NASA | 5 December 2022 | flyby | success | Uncrewed test of the Orion spacecraft in lunar flyby and DRO orbit. | ARTEMIS-1 |
| LunaH-Map | LunaH-Map | NASA | 21 November 2022 (flyby) | orbiter | failure | intended to perform engine burn to achieve a lunar orbit to search for evidence of lunar water ice inside permanently shadowed craters using its neutron detector. Orbit insertion failed possibly due to a struck valve. The mission was terminated after six month in solar orbit. | LUNAH-MAP |
| Lunar IceCube | Lunar IceCube | NASA | 21 November 2022 (flyby) | orbiter | failure | intended to perform engine burn to achieve a lunar orbit to use its infrared spectrometer to detect water and organic compounds in the lunar surface and exosphere. | L-ICECUBE |
| EQUULEUS | EQUULEUS | JAXA | 21 November 2022 | flyby | success | image the Earth's plasmasphere, impact craters on the Moon's far side and L2 experiments. | EQUULEUS |
| LunIR | LunIR | Lockheed Martin | 21 November 2022 | flyby | failure | image surface thermography, failed to observe the Moon due to faulty communication | LUNIR |
| NEA Scout | NEA Scout | NASA | 21 November 2022 | flyby | failure | Solar sail intended to flyby a near-Earth asteroid. Communication failure. | NEA-SCOUT |
| ArgoMoon | ArgoMoon | ASI | 21 November 2022 | flyby | success | image the ICPS and perform deep space Nanotechnology experiments. | ARGOMOON |
| OMOTENASHI solid motor and orbiting module | OMOTENASHI solid motor and orbiting module | JAXA | 21 November 2022 (flyby) | impactor | failure | intentional impact after separation from surface probe. Prepares the trajectory for landing of surface probe. Communication failure, missed target | OMOTENASH |
| | OMOTENASHI surface probe | JAXA | 21 November 2022 (flyby) | semi-hard lander | failure | inflatable module attempting to land semi-hard at lunar surface. Communication failure, missed target | OMOTENASH |
| CuSP | CuSP | NASA | 21 November 2022 | flyby | failure | mission to study particles and magnetic fields. Did lunar flyby due to launch trajectory. | CUSP |
| BioSentinel | BioSentinel | NASA | 21 November 2022 | flyby | success | it contains yeast cards that will be rehydrated in space, designed to detect, measure, and compare the effects of deep space radiation. | BIOSENTNL |
| Team Miles | Team Miles | Fluid & Reason | 21 November 2022 | flyby | failure | demonstrate low-thrust plasma propulsion in deep space. | TEAMMILES |
| Danuri (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter) | Danuri (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter) | KARI/ NASA | 16 December 2022 | orbiter | in orbit | Lunar Orbiter by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) of South Korea. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control infrastructure are technology demonstrators. The orbiter will also be tasked with surveying lunar resources such as water ice, uranium, helium-3, silicon, and aluminium, and produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites. | KPLO |
| Hakuto-R Mission 1 | Hakuto-R Mission 1 | ispace | April 2023 | lander | failure | Lunar lander technology demonstration. | HAKUTO-R1 |
| | Rashid | UAESA/MBRSC | April 2023 | rover | failure | Lunar rover, part of the Emirates Lunar Mission. | HAKUTO-R1 |
| | SORA-Q | JAXA/Tomy/Doshisha University | April 2023 | rover | failure | Lunar rover technology demonstration. | HAKUTO-R1 |
| Lunar Flashlight | Lunar Flashlight | NASA | 11 December 2022 (launch) | orbiter | failure | was to enter a near-rectilinear halo orbit; couldn't leave Earth orbit due to propulsion failures. | L-FLASHLT |
| JUICE | JUICE | ESA | 14 April 2023 (launch) | flyby | success | gravity assist in August 2024 en route to Jupiter. | |
| Chandrayaan-3 | Chandrayaan-3 | ISRO | 14 July 2023 (launch) 5 August 2023 (orbit insertion) | orbiter | success | bring the lander from Earth parking orbit to pre-landing 100 km (62 mi) lunar orbit and study the spectral and polarimetric measurements of Earth from the lunar orbit. The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on 5 August, and India became the first country to touch down near the lunar south pole, at 69°S, the southernmost lunar landing on 23 August 2023 at 18:03 IST (12:33 UTC). | CHANDRYN3 |
| | Vikram | ISRO | 23 August 2023 | lander | success | primary objective is to redo Chandrayaan-2 landing which had failed. In-site observation & conducting experiments on the materials available on the lunar surface to better understand composition of the Moon. | CHANDRYN3 |
| | Pragyan | ISRO | 23 August 2023 | rover | success | stowed inside lander. Demonstrating the rover’s loitering capabilities on the Moon. In-site observation and conducting experiments on the materials available on the lunar surface to better understand composition of the Moon. | CHANDRYN3 |
| | Chandrayaan-3 Propulsion Module | ISRO | Between 13 October and 10 November 2023 | 4 flybys | success | Extended mission following lunar orbit operations to returning to Earth orbit | CHANDRYN3 |
| Luna 25 | Luna 25 | Roscosmos | 10 August 2023 | lander | failure | Launched 10 August 2023, orbit insertion 16 August 2023, crashed on lunar surface on 19 August 2023 following an anomalous orbital lowering maneuver. | LUNA-25 |
| SLIM | SLIM | JAXA | 19 January 2024 | gravity assist/lander | success | Successfully demonstrated precision landing by landing within 100 m (330 ft) of its target spot. Its solar cells were initially not generating electricity due to wrong attitude but in ten days the Sun moved enough to temporarily provide power to the spacecraft. | SLIM |
| | LEV-1 | JAXA | 19 January 2024 | rover | success | Lunar rover with a hopping mechanism. Conducted six hops on lunar surface. | SLIM |
| | LEV-2 (SORA-Q) | JAXA/Tomy/Doshisha University | 19 January 2024 | rover | success | Lunar rover, reflight of the SORA-Q rover launched with the failed Hakuto-R Mission 1. Imaged SLIM lander on lunar surface. | SLIM |
| Peregrine | Peregrine | Astrobotic Technology | 8 January 2024 (launch) | lander | failure | Lunar lander selected for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services carrying a total of 25 payloads. Landing abandoned due to excessive propellant leak. | PEREGRN-1 |
| | Colmena × 5 | UNAM | 8 January 2024 (launch) | rover | failure | Five small robots that will be catapulted onto the lunar surface. Mission phased out along with landing of Peregrine lander due to excessive propellant leak. | PEREGRN-1 |
| | Iris | CMU | 8 January 2024 (launch) | rover | failure | Lunar rover, will test small, lightweight rover mobility on the Moon, and collect scientific images for geological sciences. Mission phased out along with landing of Peregrine lander due to excessive propellant leak. | PEREGRN-1 |
| IM-1 Odysseus | IM-1 Odysseus | Intuitive Machines | 22 February 2024 | lander | success | Lunar lander selected for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services carrying a total of 6 payloads. | IM-1-NOVA |
| | EagleCam | Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University | 28 February 2024 | semi-hard lander | failure | Deployable camera designed to attempt to capture the first third-person images of a lunar landing. Ejected post landing due to technical issues, failed to return images. | IM-1-NOVA |
| DRO-A | DRO-A | CAS | 13 March 2024 (launch) | orbiter | in orbit | YZ-1S upper stage failed to deliver spacecrafts into correct orbit. The satellites were intended to test Distant retrograde orbit. Tracking data appears to show China is attempting to salvage spacecraft and they appear to have succeeded in reaching their desired orbit. | 2024-048A |
| DRO-B | DRO-B | CAS | 13 March 2024 (launch) | orbiter | in orbit | YZ-1S upper stage failed to deliver spacecrafts into correct orbit. The satellites were intended to test Distant retrograde orbit. Tracking data appears to show China is attempting to salvage spacecraft and they appear to have succeeded in reaching their desired orbit. | 2024-048A |
| Queqiao-2 | Queqiao-2 | CNSA | 24 March 2024 | orbiter | in orbit | Lunar far side relay satellite. | QUEQIAO-2 |
| | Tiandu-1 | Deep Space Exploration Laboratory | 24 March 2024 | orbiter | in orbit | will test communications for future lunar satellite constellation technologies. | QUEQIAO-2 |
| | Tiandu-2 | Deep Space Exploration Laboratory | 24 March 2024 | orbiter | in orbit | will test communications for future lunar satellite constellation technologies. | QUEQIAO-2 |
| Chang'e 6 | Chang'e 6 | CNSA | 3 May 2024 | sample return | operational | First sample-return from the South Pole–Aitken basin on the far side of the Moon. | CHANG-E-6 |
| | Chang'e 6 Lander | CNSA | 1 June 2024 - | sample return | success | Obtained lunar sample and placed on ascent vehicle; conducted radar studies of underground structure | CHANG-E-6 |
| | Chang'e 6 Ascender | CNSA | 3 June 2024 - 7 June 2024 | sample return | success | Transferred lunar sample to return capsule on 6 June 2024 after lunar-orbit rendezvous; deorbited | CHANG-E-6 |
| | Jinchan rover | CNSA | 3 May 2024 | sample return | success | Conduct infrared spectroscopy of lunar surface and imaged Chang'e 6 lander on lunar surface. | CHANG-E-6 |
| | Chang'e 6 Orbiter | CNSA | 8 May 2024 - 20 June 2024 | orbiter | success | On extended mission orbiting Sun-Earth L$_2$ | CHANG-E-6 |
| | ICUBE-Q | SUPARCO | 3 May 2024 | orbiter | operational | Pakistan's first lunar mission. | CHANG-E-6 |
| Blue Ghost M1 | Blue Ghost M1 | Firefly Aerospace | 15 January 2025 (launch) 2 March 2025 (landing) | lander | full success | Lunar lander technology demonstration. First ever soft landing by a private company. First successful American lunar lander after over 52 years, the last being Apollo 17. Completed all objectives after landing in Mare Crisium on March 2, including deep-surface drilling and fortuitous observation of lunar eclipse from lunar nearside,, having operated for 346 continuous hours. Mission ended on March 16 upon passing into lunar night, and probe powered down. The landing was live-streamed from command center. First ever video of lunar final descent sequence and landing. | BLUEGHOST |
| Hakuto-R Mission 2 | Hakuto-R Mission 2 | ispace | 15 January 2025 (launch) | lander | enroute | Lunar lander technology demonstration. | RESILIENC |
| | Tenacious Rover | Ispace Europe | May-June 2024 | rover | enroute | Lunar rover to collect lunar resources. | RESILIENC |
| IM-2 Athena | IM-2 Athena | Intuitive Machines | 27 February 2025 (launch) 6 March 2025 (landing) | lander | partial success | Lunar lander contracted under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services and carrying various scientific payloads. Probe suffered laser altimeter failure 3 minutes prior to south polar touchdown, leading to descent stage continuing to fire after landing. Slid sideways and toppled into a shadowed crater. Mission terminated due to insufficient solar power on March 7, after 13 hours of much limited operations. This is the second (partially successful) lunar landing by Intuitive Machines. | 2025-038A |
| | Micro-Nova hopper | Intuitive Machines | 27 February 2025 (launch) 6 March 2025 (landing) | hopper | failure | Lunar hopper, exploring multiple difficult-to-reach areas such as deep craters on the lunar surface, by firing hydrazine rockets in controlled bursts to propel itself short distances. It will hop across craters in search of lunar ice, which could contain water critical to future crewed missions to the Moon. | 2025-038A |
| | AstroAnt rover | MIT | 27 February 2025 (launch) 6 March 2025 (landing) | rover | failure | Lunar miniature rover, the size of a matchbox, to conduct contactless temperature measurements as it drives around on MAPP's roof. | 2025-038A |
| | MAPP LV1 rover | Lunar Outpost / Nokia | 27 February 2025 (launch) 6 March 2025 (landing) | rover | failure | Lunar rover to collect lunar samples for NASA under a contract worth just $1, which is symbolic of a new incentive for the emerging commercial space industry to access resources in space. It will also autonomously map the lunar surface, capture stereo images and thermal data, and inspect samples of lunar regolith in a special bin mounted on its wheels. | 2025-038A |
| | Yaoki rover | Dymon [ja] | 27 February 2025 (launch) 6 March 2025 (landing) | rover | failure | Lunar rover to test mobility technologies. | 2025-038A |
| Lunar Trailblazer | Lunar Trailblazer | NASA | 3 March 2025 (flyby) | orbiter | failure | Intended to achieve a lunar orbit to aid in the understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. | 2025-038C |
| Brokkr-2 | Brokkr-2 | AstroForge | 3 March 2025 | flyby | failure | Asteroid probe intended to flyby the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5. Communication failure. | 2025-038D |
| Chimera-1 | Chimera-1 | Epic Aerospace | 3 March 2025 | flyby | failure? | Space tug planed TLI to Geosynchronous. Communication failure? | 2025-038B |