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    attempt using a follow-up robotic lander named Beresheet 2. India's Chandrayaan Programme conducted an unsuccessful robotic lunar soft-landing attempt on...
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    is an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The program encompasses lunar orbiters, landers, rovers...
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    of Soviet robotic lunar rovers designed to land on the Moon between 1969 and 1977. Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on...
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    The International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) (Chinese: 国际月球科研站, Russian: Международная научная лунная станция) is a planned lunar base currently being...
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    The Luna programme (from the Russian word Луна "Luna" meaning "Moon"), occasionally called Lunik by western media, was a series of robotic spacecraft...
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    Chandrayaan programme (/ˌtʃʌndrəˈjɑːn/ CHUN-drə-YAHN) (Sanskrit: Candra 'Moon', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle', pronunciation) also known as the Indian Lunar Exploration...
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    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...
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    had taken place on the lunar near side until the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon was made by the CNSA robotic spacecraft Chang'e 4 in...
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    Lunokhod 1 (category Lunar rovers)
    also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 ("Device 8EL No. 203") was the first robotic rover on the Moon and the first to freely move across the surface of an...
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  • The Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX) (also called as Chandrayaan-5) is a planned joint lunar mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation...
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    Chandrayaan-4 (category Indian lunar exploration programme)
    lunar sample return mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the fourth iteration in its Chandrayaan lunar exploration programme....
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    an ESA-built observatory module European Robotic Arm (ERA), launched in July 2021, operational – a robotic arm that is attached to the Russian segment...
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    Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost (category Commercial Lunar Payload Services)
    First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing". NASA. 5 March 2025. Retrieved 6 March 2025. "NASA awards launch contract to SpaceX and orders a lunar lander...
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    surrounding the Apollo 15 Lunar Module blast crater while orbiting above the lunar surface. Beginning in 2009, NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
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    to robotic sample return missions, the American Apollo program proceeded successfully, with Apollo 8 becoming the first crewed mission to enter lunar orbit...
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    Luna 15 (category Luna programme)
    Luna 15 was a robotic space mission of the Soviet Luna programme, that was in lunar orbit together with the Apollo 11 Command module Columbia. On 21 July...
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    landed on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and...
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  • by European Space Agency to Develop Robotic Arm Prototype for Argonaut Lunar Lander to Support International Lunar Exploration". Redwire Space. 22 May...
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    Chandrayaan-3 (category Indian lunar exploration programme)
    programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission consists of a Vikram lunar lander...
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    Lunokhod 2 (category Lunar rovers)
    was the second of two uncrewed lunar rovers that landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod programme. The Luna 21 spacecraft landed...
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    Luna 3 (category Lunar flybys)
    Chinese December 2018 mission for a robotic probe/lander combination that landed on the Moon's far side, near the lunar south pole (3 January 2019) Exploration...
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    Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, several robotic landers will deliver scientific instruments and robotic rovers to the lunar surface after...
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    Chandrayaan-1 (category Indian lunar exploration programme)
    "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") was the first Indian lunar probe under the Chandrayaan programme. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation...
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  • HERACLES (Human-Enhanced Robotic Architecture and Capability for Lunar Exploration and Science) is a planned robotic transport system to and from the...
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    "Telescopic Tracking of the Apollo Lunar Missions". Bill Keel's Space History Bits. Scott & Leonov 2004, p. 247 "The Moon Programme That Faltered". Spaceflight...
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    Luna 23 (category Luna programme)
    Luna 23 was a Soviet Moon lander mission which was intended to return a lunar sample to Earth. Launched to the Moon by a Proton-K/D, the spacecraft tipped...
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    Luna 17 (category Luna programme)
    the first robotic rover onto the surface of the Moon. Luna 17 was launched from an Earth parking orbit towards the Moon and entered lunar orbit on 15...
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    Zond program (redirect from Zond programme)
    The second series of test spacecraft was intended as a precursor to remote-controlled robotic circumlunar loop flights, using a stripped-down variant...
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    colonization of the Moon is a process or concept employed by some proposals for robotic or human exploitation and settlement endeavours on the Moon. Often used...
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    The search for the presence of lunar water has attracted considerable attention and motivated several recent lunar missions, largely because of water's...
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