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Moon
Explore Moon and the missions that include it in their destination lists. A target in a mission plan does not mean the spacecraft has arrived.
Ephemeris committed
Body record
What the catalog records about Moon
- Body type
- Moon
- Orbits
- Earth
- Mean radius
- 1,737.4 km
- Position in the explorer
- Computed from a committed ephemeris
Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.
Derived figures
Missions to Moon
- Committed missions
- 155
- First launch
- Latest launch
- Concluded missions
- 145
- Recorded a success
- 64
- Success rate
- 44%
Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 10 of the 155 records are still active, leaving 145 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.
| Decade | Missions launched |
|---|---|
| 1950s | |
| 1960s | |
| 1970s | |
| 1980s | |
| 1990s | |
| 2000s | |
| 2010s | |
| 2020s |
Who went
Agencies
A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 155.
What they did
Mission types
- Orbiter
- 57
- Lander
- 53
- Flyby
- 26
- Sample return
- 15
- Impactor
- 13
- Technology demonstrator
- 13
- Crewed
- 10
- Rover
- 8
- Other
- 6
- Heliophysics
- 4
- Observatory
- 2
- Atmospheric probe
- 1
A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.
How they ended
Outcomes
- Success
- 64
- Partial success
- 17
- Failure
- 64
- Active
- 10
Which ones
Every committed mission to Moon
Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.
- Pioneer 0
- Luna 1958A
- Luna 1958B
- Pioneer 1
- Pioneer 2
- Luna 1958C
- Pioneer 3
- Luna 1
- Pioneer 4
- Luna 1959A
- Luna 2
- Luna 3
- Pioneer P-3
- Luna 1960A
- Luna 1960B
- Pioneer P-30
- Pioneer P-31
- Ranger 1
- Ranger 2
- Ranger 3
- Ranger 4
- Ranger 5
- Sputnik 25
- Luna 1963B
- Luna 4
- Ranger 6
- Luna 1964A
- Luna 1964B
- Ranger 7
- Ranger 8
- Cosmos 60
- Ranger 9
- Luna 1965A
- Luna 5
- Luna 6
- Zond 3
- Luna 7
- Luna 8
- Luna 9
- Cosmos 111
- Luna 10
- Luna 1966A
- Surveyor 1
- Explorer 33
- Lunar Orbiter 1
- Luna 11
- Surveyor 2
- Luna 12
- Lunar Orbiter 2
- Luna 13
- Lunar Orbiter 3
- Surveyor 3
- Lunar Orbiter 4
- Surveyor 4
- Explorer 35
- Lunar Orbiter 5
- Surveyor 5
- Zond 1967A
- Surveyor 6
- Zond 1967B
- Surveyor 7
- Luna 1968A
- Luna 14
- Zond 5
- Zond 6
- Apollo 8
- Zond 1969A
- Luna 1969A
- Zond L1S-1
- Luna 1969B
- Apollo 10
- Luna 1969C
- Zond L1S-2
- Luna 15
- Apollo 11
- Zond 7
- Cosmos 300
- Cosmos 305
- Apollo 12
- Luna 1970A
- Luna 1970B
- Apollo 13
- Luna 16
- Zond 8
- Luna 17
- Apollo 14
- Apollo 15
- Luna 18
- Luna 19
- Luna 20
- Apollo 16
- Soyuz L3
- Apollo 17
- Luna 21
- Explorer 49
- Luna 22
- Luna 23
- Luna 1975A
- Luna 24
- Galileo
- Hiten
- Clementine
- Lunar Prospector
- Nozomi
- SMART-1
- ARTEMIS
- Kaguya
- Chang'e 1
- Chandrayaan-1
- LCROSS
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Chang'e 2
- GRAIL
- LADEE
- Chang'e 3
- 4M
- Chang'e 5-T1
- Longjiang 1
- Longjiang 2
- Queqiao
- Chang'e 4
- Beresheet
- Chandrayaan-2
- Chang'e 5
- CAPSTONE
- Danuri
- ArgoMoon
- Artemis I
- BioSentinel
- EQUULEUS
- LunaH-Map
- Lunar IceCube
- LunIR
- OMOTENASHI
- Hakuto-R Mission 1
- Lunar Flashlight
- Juice
- Chandrayaan-3
- Luna 25
- SLIM
- Peregrine Mission One
- IM-1 (Odysseus)
- DRO-A
- DRO-B
- Queqiao 2
- Tiandu-1
- Tiandu-2
- Chang'e 6
- ICUBE-QAMAR
- Blue Ghost Mission 1
- Hakuto-R Mission 2
- Intuitive Machines 2 (PRIME-1)
- Lunar Trailblazer
- Odin
- Artemis II
Keep going
These records in the directory
The directory's Moon destination filter selects exactly the records counted above.
View all 155 Moon missionsThe explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed. Mission inspection shows one spacecraft at a time, so this link opens the earliest available mission.
Draw 1 of the 35 missions with a committed trajectory