Intuitive Machines Athena soft lands on on Moon
The Athena probe from Intuitive Machines has landed on its side, an off-nominal angle. Technical Report: IM-2 Lunar Landing and Initial Assessment Date: March 7, 2025 Preview: Landing Three minutes…
Firefly lander at Sea of Crisis
Firefly Blue Ghost 1 Lander at Mare Crsium
2nd March 2025: Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down in Mare Crisium carrying 10 NASA instruments. Firefly Has Been Added to Our Online Map of the Moon.... Firefly…
Chang’e 6: A Historic Sample Return Misson from the Moon’s Far Side
China's Chang'e 6 mission made space resource history by successfully retrieving 1.935 kilograms of lunar samples from the Moon's far side. This was the first time Lunar regolith had been…
Intuitive Machines Nova-C Odysseus Lander
Intuitive Machines Nova-C Odysseus landed on the moon Feb. 22, and is the first privately developed spacecraft to touch down on the moon, and the first US spacecraft to do…
SLIM Smart Lander for Investigating Moon Actual Landing
Below, the SLIM Rover and two Rovers, located on the Moon, visible via our Open Lunar Registry for Education online map. An actual image of Japan's SLIM lunar lander and…
Hopper Rover, LEV-1, SLIM Mission
LEV-1, is affectionately known as the Hopping Rover, because of its unique process of traversing the Lunar terrain.
Sora-Q Rover, LEV-2, SLIM Mission
Source: JAXA The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) achieved a major milestone when its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed on the Moon on January 19, 2024. Japan is…
Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3 was the third Indian lunar exploration mission operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Chandrayaan programme. It included a lander called Vikram and a rover called Pragyan, similar…
Luna 13
Luna 13 was the third successful spacecraft to conduct a moon landing on 24th December 1966. Its weight is 113 kilograms and it carried multiple scientific instruments and an imaging…
Luna 9 – First successful Moon landing
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable (at 22 kilometres per hour) landing on a celestial body, and being launched from Earth, the Moon. The lander mass…