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Category: Mission.Category: future.
Category: Mission.Category: future.
Farside Seismic Suite
Farside Seismic Suite will deliver two sensitive seismometers to the far side of the Moon, where they will measure far-side moonquakes and meteor impacts for the first time ever. .
Launch date: 2027
Category: Mission.Category: future.
Category: Mission.Category: future.
CADRE
A trio of small rovers will work as a team to explore the Moon autonomously, mapping the subsurface in 3D, collecting distributed measurements, and showing the potential of multirobot missions. .
Launch date: 2026
Category: Mission.Category: future.
Category: Mission.Category: future.
MoonFall
NASA’s MoonFall mission will blaze a path for future science and human exploration of the Moon by sending four JPL-built propulsive drones to survey the lunar surface at potential Artemis landing sites in unprecedented detail. MoonFall will help establish a sustained U.S. presence in the lunar South Pole region. .
Published: May 26, 2026
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Lunar Trailblazer
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission would have provided new insights into the lunar water cycle. .
Launch date: Feb. 26, 2025
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Lunar Flashlight
Roughly the size of a briefcase, Lunar Flashlight is a very small satellite being developed and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that will use near-infrared lasers and an onboard spectrometer to map ice in permanently shadowed regions near the Moon's south pole. .
Launch date: Dec. 11, 2022
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
GRAIL
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission was designed to create the most accurate gravitational map of the moon to date, which when combined with topographic data, can provide insight into the moon's internal structure, composition and evolution. .
Launch date: Sept. 10, 2011
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment
An instrument flying aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment is designed to measure surface temperatures on the moon, providing key information for future lunar surface operations and exploration. .
Launch date: June 18, 2009
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Moon Mineralogy Mapper
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3, instrument flew aboard Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the moon, and provided the first mineralogical map of the lunar suface. .
Launch date: Oct. 22, 2008
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Surveyor 7
Surveyor 7 was the last of the original series of Surveyor moon landers of the late 1960s and was dedicated primarily to scientific investigations. .
Launch date: Jan. 7, 1968
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Surveyor 6
Part of the highly successful series of lunar landers sent to the moon to examine the feasibility of a future human mission, Surveyor 6 was the first spacecraft to be launched from the surface of the moon. .
Launch date: Nov. 7, 1967
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Surveyor 5
Equipped with a chemical element analyzer for conducting analyses of the lunar soil, the Surveyor 5 lander was the first spacecraft to do a soil analysis on the moon, or any other world. .
Launch date: Sept. 8, 1967
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Category: Mission.Category: past.
Surveyor 4
Despite a perfect flight to the moon, Surveyor 4, which was designed to conduct further studies of the lunar surface in preparation for the upcoming Apollo missions, met an untimely end just 2.5 minutes before landing on the moon. .
Launch date: July 14, 1967

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