List of artificial objects on the Moon

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Artificial object	Nationality	Launched	Mass (kg Kilogram The kilogram or kilogrammeThe spelling kilogram is used by the International Committee for Weights and Measures and the U.S.... )	Location
Luna 2 Luna 2 Luna 2 was the second of the Soviet Union Luna programme spacecraft launched in the direction of the Moon. It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon....	USSR Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....	1959	390.2	29.1°N 0°W
Ranger 4 Ranger 4 Ranger 4 was a spacecraft of the Ranger program designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to crashing upon the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue te...	United States United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	1962	331	12.9°S 129.1°W
Ranger 6 Ranger 6 Ranger 6 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact....	United States	1964	381	9.4°N 21.5°E
Ranger 7 Ranger 7 Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact....	United States	1964	365.7	10.6°S 20.61°W
Luna 5 Luna 5 Luna 5 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 5. It was designed to continue investigations of a lunar soft landing....	USSR	1965	1474	1.6°S 25°W
Luna 7 Luna 7 Luna 7 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 7. The Luna 7 spacecraft was intended to achieve a soft landing on the Moon....	USSR	1965	1504	9.8°N 47.8°W
Luna 8 Luna 8 Luna 8 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program. Also called Lunik 8,Luna 8 was launched with the probable mission of achieving a soft landing on the Moon....	USSR	1965	1550	9.6°N 62°W
Ranger 8 Ranger 8 Ranger 8 was a spacecraft designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact....	United States	1965	367	2.64°N 24.77°E
Ranger 9 Ranger 9 Ranger 9 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact....	United States	1965	367	12.79°S 2.36°W
Luna 9 Luna 9 Luna 9 , also known as Lunik 9 , was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. On February 3, 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft was the first spacecraft to achieve a Moon Soft landing and to transmit photographic data to Earth....	USSR	1966	1580	7.13°N 64.37°W
Luna 10 Luna 10 Luna 10 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 10.The Luna 10 spacecraft was launched towards the Moon from an Earth orbiting platform on March 31, 1966....	USSR	1966	1600	?
Luna 11 Luna 11 Luna 11 was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. It is also called Lunik 11.Luna 11 was launched towards the Moon from an earth-orbiting platform and entered lunar orbit on 27 August 1966....	USSR	1966	1640	?
Luna 12 Luna 12 Luna 12 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 12.Luna 12 was launched towards the Moon from an Earth-orbiting platform and achieved lunar orbit on October 25, 1966....	USSR	1966	1670	?
Luna 13 Luna 13 Luna 13 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 13.The Luna 13 spacecraft was launched toward the Moon from an earth-orbiting platform and accomplished a soft landing on December 24, 1966, in the region of Oceanus Procellarum....	USSR	1966	1700
Surveyor 1 Surveyor 1 Surveyor 1 was the first lunar lander in the United States Surveyor program that explored the Moon. The program was managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, utilizing spacecraft designed and built by Hughes Aircraft....	United States	1966	270	2.45°S 43.22°W
Lunar Orbiter 1	United States	1966	386	6.35°N 160.72°E
Surveyor 2 Surveyor 2 Surveyor 2 was the second United States lunar lander in the Surveyor program that explored the Moon.*Launched September 20, 1966; landed September 23, 1966...	United States	1966	292	4.0°S 11.0°W
Lunar Orbiter 2 Lunar Orbiter 2 The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the Moon surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor program and Project Apollo missions....	United States	1966	385	2.9°N 119.1°E
Lunar Orbiter 3 Lunar Orbiter 3 The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967, designed primarily to photograph areas of the Moon surface for confirmation of safe landing sites for the Surveyor program and Apollo program missions....	United States	1966	386	14.6°N 97.7°W
Surveyor 3 Surveyor 3 Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the Surveyor program that explored the Moon. Launched on April 17, 1967, Surveyor 3 landed April 20, 1967 at the Mare Cognitum portion of the Oceanus Procellarum....	United States	1967	281	2.99°S 23.34°W
Lunar Orbiter 4 Lunar Orbiter 4 Lunar Orbiter 4 was designed to take advantage of the fact that the three previous Lunar Orbiters had completed the required needs for Project Apollo mapping and site selection....	United States	1967	386	?
Surveyor 4 Surveyor 4 Surveyor 4 was the fourth lunar lander in the Surveyor program that explored the Moon.*Launched July 14, 1967; landed July 17, 1967*Weight on landing: 625 lb ...	United States	1967	283	0.45°N 1.39°W
Explorer 35 (IMP-E) Explorer 35 Explorer 35 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary studies, at lunar distances, of the interplanetary Plasma , magnetic field, energetic particles, and solar X rays....	United States	1967	104.3	?
Lunar Orbiter 5 Lunar Orbiter 5 Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the Lunar Orbiter series, was designed to take additional Project Apollo and Surveyor program landing site photography and to take broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moon's far side....	United States	1967	386	2.8°S 83.1°W
Surveyor 5 Surveyor 5 Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the Surveyor program that explored the Moon.*Launched September 3, 1967; landed September 11, 1967*Weight on landing: 303 kg ...	United States	1967	281	1.42°N 23.2°E
Surveyor 6 Surveyor 6 Surveyor 6 was the sixth lunar lander of the Surveyor program that explored the Moon.*Launched November 7, 1967; landed November 10, 1967*Weight on landing: 299.6 kg ...	United States	1967	282	0.53°N 1.4°W
Surveyor 7 Surveyor 7 Surveyor 7 was the seventh and last lunar lander of the Surveyor program that explored the Moon.*Launched January 7, 1968; landed January 10 1968...	United States	1967	290	40.86°S 11.47°W
Luna 14 Luna 14 Luna 14 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program run by the Soviet Union. It was also called Lunik 14.The Luna 14 spacecraft entered a 160 x 870 km lunar orbit with an inclination of 42 degrees at 19:25 UT on 10 April 1968....	USSR	1968	1670	?
Apollo 10 Apollo 10 Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the Apollo Lunar Module in lunar orbit....  LM Apollo Lunar Module The Apollo Lunar Module was the Lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the United States Apollo program by Grumman to achieve the transit from cislunar orbit to the surface and back....  descent stage	United States	1969	2211	?
Luna 15 Luna 15 Luna 15 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 15.Luna 15 was a last minute Soviet Union attempt to steal some of Apollo 11's publicity by being the first mission to return lunar soil to Earth....	USSR	1969	2718	?
Apollo 11 LM descent stage	United States	1969	2034
Apollo 11 Apollo 11 The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Apollo program and the third human voyage to the Moon....  LM ascent stage	United States	1969	2184	?
Apollo 12 LM descent stage	United States	1969	2211	2.99°S 23.34°W
Apollo 12 Apollo 12 Apollo 12 was the sixth manned mission in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon....  LM ascent stage	United States	1969	2164	3.94°S 21.2°W
Luna 16 Luna 16 Luna 16 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunnik 16 .Luna program 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth....   descent stage	USSR	1970	< 5727	0.68°S 56.3°E
Luna 17 Luna 17 Luna 17 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 17.Luna 17 was launched from an earth parking orbit towards the Moon and entered lunar orbit on November 15, 1970....  & Lunokhod 1 Lunokhod 1 Lunokhod 1 was the first of two unmanned lunar rover s landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17....	USSR	1970	5600	38.28°N 35.0°W
Apollo 13 Apollo 13 Apollo 13 was the third manned lunar-landing mission, part of Project Apollo under NASA in the United States. The crew members were Commander Jim Lovell, Command Module pilot Jack Swigert, and Lunar Module pilot Fred W....  S-IVB S-IVB The S-IVB was built by the Douglas Aircraft Company and served as the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB. It had one J-2 engine....  (S-IVB-508)	United States	1970	13454	2.75°S 27.86°W
Luna 18 Luna 18 Luna 18 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 18.Luna 18 was placed in an earth parking orbit after it was launched and was then sent towards the Moon....	USSR	1971	5600	3.57°N 56.5°E
Luna 19 Luna 19 Luna 19 , was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program. Luna 19 extended the systematic study of lunar gravitational fields and location of mascons ....	USSR	1971	5600	?
Apollo 14 Apollo 14 Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the Moon. The 9 day mission was launched on January 31 1971, with lunar touch down on February 5....  S-IVB (S-IVB-509)	United States	1971	14016	8.09°S 26.02°W
Apollo 14 LM descent stage	United States	1971	2144	3° 38' 43.08"S 17° 28' 16.90" W
Apollo 14 LM ascent stage	United States	1971	2132	3.42°S 29.67°W
Apollo 15 Apollo 15 Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fourth mission to land on the Moon. It was the first of what were termed "J missions", long duration stays on the Moon with a greater focus on science than had been possible on previous missions....  S-IVB (S-IVB-510)	United States	1971	14036	1.51°S 17.48°W
Apollo 15 LM descent stage	United States	1971	2809	26° 7' 55.99"N 3° 38' 1.90" E
Apollo 15 Lunar Rover Lunar rover File:Apollo15LunarRover.jpgThe Lunar Roving Vehicle or lunar rover was a type of surface exploration rover used on the Moon during the Apollo program....	United States	1971	462	26.08°N 3.66°E
Apollo 15 LM ascent stage	United States	1971	2132	26.36°N 0.25°E
Apollo 15 subsatellite	United States	1971	36	?
Luna 20 Luna 20 Luna 20 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 20.Luna 20 was placed in an intermediate Earth parking orbit and from this orbit was sent towards the Moon....   descent stage	USSR	1972	< 5727	3.53°N 56.55°E
Apollo 16 Apollo 16 Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program, the fifth mission to land on the Moon and the first to land in the highlands area....  S-IVB (S-IVB-511)	United States	1972	14002	1.3°N 23.9°W
Apollo 16 LM descent stage	United States	1972	2765	8° 58' 22.84"S 15° 30' 0.68" E
Apollo 16 Lunar Rover Lunar rover File:Apollo15LunarRover.jpgThe Lunar Roving Vehicle or lunar rover was a type of surface exploration rover used on the Moon during the Apollo program....	United States	1972	462	8.97°S 15.51°E
Apollo 16 LM ascent stage	United States	1972	2138	?
Apollo 16 subsatellite	United States	1972	36	?
Apollo 17 Apollo 17 Apollo 17 was the eleventh Human spaceflight in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a United States human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program....  S-IVB (S-IVB-512)	United States	1972	13960	4.21°S 22.31°W
Apollo 17 LM descent stage	United States	1972	2798	20° 11' 26.88"N 30° 46' 18.05" E
Apollo 17 Lunar Rover Lunar rover File:Apollo15LunarRover.jpgThe Lunar Roving Vehicle or lunar rover was a type of surface exploration rover used on the Moon during the Apollo program....	United States	1972	462	20.17°N 30.77°W
Apollo 17 LM ascent stage	United States	1972	2150	19.96°N 30.50°E
Luna 21 Luna 21 Luna 21 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 21. The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover ....  & Lunokhod 2 Lunokhod 2 Lunokhod 2 was the second of two unmanned space missions lunar rover s landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program....	USSR	1973	4850	25.85°N 30.45°E
Explorer 49 Explorer 49 Explorer 49 was a 328 kilogram satellite launched on June 10 1973 for longwave radio astronomy research. It had four 230-meter long X-shaped antenna elements, which made it to one of the largest spacecraft ever built....  (RAE-B)	United States	1973	328	?
Luna 22 Luna 22 Luna 22 was an unmanned space mission, part of the Soviet Luna program, also called Lunik 22.Luna 22 was a Moon orbiter mission. The spacecraft carried imaging cameras and also had the objectives of studying the Moon's magnetic field, surface gamma ray emissions and composition of lunar surface rocks, and the gravitational field, as well as...	USSR	1974	4000	?
Luna 23 Luna 23 Luna 23 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunnik 23.Luna 23 was a Moon lander mission which was intended to return a lunar sample to Earth....	USSR	1974	5600	~12°N ~62°E
Luna 24 Luna 24 Luna 24 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 24. The last of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet mission to retrieve Lunar soil samples ....  descent stage	USSR	1976	< 5800	12.75°N 62.2°E
Hiten Orbiter (Hagoromo Hagoromo Hagoromo may refer to:* Hagoromo, a small space orbiter released by the Japanese spacecraft Hiten* Hagoromo , a Japanese Noh play* hagoromo, heavenly kimono of tennin, tennyo, tenshi... )	Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....	1990	12	?
Hiten Hiten The Hiten spacecraft , built by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan, was launched on January 24, 1990. It was Japan's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States....	Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....	1993	143	34.3°S 55.6°E
Lunar Prospector Lunar Prospector The Lunar Prospector mission was the third selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program. At a cost of $62.8 million, the 19-month mission was designed for a low polar orbit investigation of the Moon, including mapping of surface composition and possible polar ice deposits, measurements of magnetic...	United States	1998	126	87.7°S 42.1°E
SMART-1 SMART-1 SMART-1 was a Swedish-designed European Space Agency satellite that orbited around the Moon. It was launched on September 27, 2003 at 23:14 Coordinated Universal Time from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana....	European Space Agency European Space Agency The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmentalism organisation dedicated to the Space exploration, currently with 18 member states....	2006	307	34.24°S 46.12°W
Moon Impact Probe Moon Impact Probe The Moon Impact Probe developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation, India's national space agency, was a moon probe that was released by ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 Exploration of the Moon orbiter which in turn was launched, on 22nd October, 2008, aboard a modified version of ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle....	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....	2008	35	89.9° S, 0.0° E
SELENE Rstar (Okina) Selene Selene is the Titan goddess of the moon.In Greek mythology, Selene was an archaic lunar deity and the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia....	Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....	2009	53	28.2°N, 201.0°E
Chang'e 1	China People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....	2009	2350	1.5°S, 52.36°E
Total estimated dry mass (kg)			174,434

See also

• List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial surfaces
  List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial surfaces
  
  List of artificial objects on Venus List of artificial objects on the Moon 'List of artificial objects on Mars...
  
• Timeline of planetary exploration