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
- Ranger program — US Lunar hard-landing probes
- Zond program — USSR Lunar exploration
- Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe
- Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital
- Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes
- Chang'e program - China Lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecrafts
- Chandrayaan programme - Indian Lunar Exploration Programme incorporates lunar orbiters, impactors, soft landers and rover spacecrafts
Key
Colour key:- † 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:
- In the case of flybys that are incidental to the main mission, "success" indicates the successful completion of the flyby, not necessarily that of the main mission.