Upcoming Rocket Launches to the Moon, Livestreams & Lunar Events

All Moon dates are estimates based on the latest available information and may change
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  • TBC (To Be Confirmed)
  • TBD (To Be Determined)

NASA ULA Vulcan Centaur Maiden Flight (Cert-1) Peregrine Lunar Lander

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

NET June - July

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • United Launch Alliance (ULA) • Certification-1 Maiden Flight Vulcan Centaur VC2S • Twin Blue Origin BE-4 Engines • Two Northrop Grumman GEM-63XL Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-X Engines • Kuipersat-1 & Kuipersat-2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Celestis Enterprise Memorial Spaceflight TBC Solar Orbit • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Astrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Celestis Tranquility Memorial Spaceflight • Moon

@ulalaunch Vulcan is vertical! This rocket will launch two Project Kuiper prototype broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, send the Astrobotic Peregrine commercial lunar lander to intercept the Moon and carry a Celestis flights memorial payload into deep space

Astrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander

NASA SpaceX IM-1 Nova-C Lunar Lander

July

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-X • Moon • Press Kit

@Int_Machines Our IM-1 Nova-C lander will have an approximate 21-day lifespan: up to 7 days of transit, 1 day in low lunar orbit, and 13.5 days on the lunar surface until its battery is depleted by the lunar night

Intuitive Machines IM-1 Nova-C Lunar Lander

JAXA H2A F47 XRISM SLIM Lunar Landers

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

NET September

Launch Pad 1 (LA-Y1) • Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) • Japan • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • JAXA H2A (H-IIA) 202 | Twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB-A) | Twin Solid Strap-On Boosters (SSB) • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H2A (H-IIA) • JAXA X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) | Resolve (Soft X-ray Spectrometer) | Xtend (Soft X-ray Imager) • NASA XRISM • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) | Lunar Excursion Vehicle 1 (LEV-1) | Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) • Moon

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H2A

NASA SpaceX IM-2 PRIME-1 & Lunar Trailblazer Nova-C Lunar Lander

UPDATED • DELAYED

November

TBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) • Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) • Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • AstroForge Brokkr-2 | OrbAstro ORB-50 • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander | µNova (Micro Nova) Hopper • Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) • California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Lunar Trailblazer • Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) • International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-1 • Moon

@NASAKennedy NASA plans to learn more about water on the Moon with the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1). A lander will take it to the lunar South Pole where it will drill into the surface and identify what it finds

NASA Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)

NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M1 Lunar Lander to the Moon

Early 2024

Space Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) • Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) • Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • NASA Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) • Montana State University (MSU) Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC-Lunar) • Moon

@Firefly_Space Blue Ghost Mission 1 update: Payload #8 has arrived! The team successfully fit-checked Honeybee Robotics's Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER)

Firefly Blue Ghost Lunar Lander

NASA Artemis II SLS & Crewed Orion Around the Moon

November 2024

Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 2 • Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-3 Hydrolox (5.7:1) Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service Module • Orion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon

@NASA_SLS Artemis II will be the first flight of SLS and NASA Orion spacecraft with crew aboard. During their mission, four astronauts will confirm all of the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed

NASA Space Launch System (SLS) with Orion at LC-39B

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy PPE & HALO to Lunar Gateway

UPDATED • DELAYED

November 2024

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway • Maxar Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) • Northrop Grumman Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon

@NASA_Gateway Gateway is coming together 🤩 Following structural welding, the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module will ship from Italy to Gilbert, Arizona, where Northrop Grumman will outfit various components to support future NASA Artemis missions

NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy Griffin & VIPER Rover to the Lunar South Pole

UPDATED • DELAYED

November 2024

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Astrobotic Griffin Lunar Lander • NASA Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon

@NASAAmes To allow for additional testing of the lunar lander that will deliver our VIPER rover to the lunar South Pole, its arrival to the Moon is now scheduled for 2024

NASA VIPER

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy GLS-1 to Lunar Gateway

UPDATED • DELAYED

December 2024

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Lunar Cargo Dragon XL • NASA Gateway Logistics Services (GLS) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon

@NASA_Gateway To support lunar surface missions, Gateway’s Deep Space Logistics Project managed out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center will deliver critical cargo, science experiments, and supplies using Gateway’s Logistics Services

NASA SpaceX IM-3 (CP-11) Nova-C Lunar Lander

2024

TBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) • Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) • Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander • Moon

@Int_Machines As part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration efforts we will be investigating lunar swirls as we suspect they may help shield future Artemis astronauts from the intense radiation on the Moon. IM-3 will complete complex lunar operations, including investigating the Reiner Gamma swirl

Intuitive Machines IM-3 Nova-C Lunar Lander

NASA TBC Draper CP-12 SERIES-2 Lunar Lander

NET March 2025

TBC • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Draper CP-12 • General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) • Karman Systima • ispace SERIES-2 Lunar Lander • Moon

@DraperLab Draper has been selected by NASA to deliver a suite of three NASA-sponsored science payloads to the Schrödinger basin on the lunar surface, which is on the far side of the Moon—a first for NASA. Our team includes ispace, General Atomics & Karman Systima

Draper Lunar Lander

NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M2 Lunar Lander to the Moon

2026

Space Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) • Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment at Night (LuSEE-Night) • ESA Lunar Pathfinder | SSTL Lunar Pathfinder • Moon

@Firefly_Space Firefly is GO for a mission to the Dark Side of the Moon! We’ve been awarded a 2nd NASA contract, delivering payloads to lunar orbit and on the far side of the Moon, building the infrastructure for ongoing lunar opportunities and planetary exploration

Firefly Blue Ghost Lunar Lander

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Griffin Lunar Lander to the Lunar South Pole

2026

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Astrobotic Griffin Lunar Lander • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon

@astrobotic We're heading to the Moon’s South Pole (again) in 2026! 🌔 Today at the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) we announced our purchase: launch services aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for our 3rd upcoming lunar lander mission!

Astrobotic Griffin Lunar Lander

SpaceX Starship AstroLab FLEX Lunar Lander to the Moon

Mid 2026

TBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Starship TBC • Raptor 2 Engines • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • AstroLab Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) Lunar Rover • Moon

@Astrolab_Space Today we announce a launch agreement with SpaceX - Our FLEX rover is headed to the Moon aboard a Starship landing system as soon as mid-2026. Once it completes its mission, FLEX will become the largest and most capable rover to ever travel to the 🌕

AstroLab Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) Lunar Rover

Recent Videos of Rocket Launches to the Moon & Lunar Events

SpaceX HAKUTO-R M1 Private Lunar Lander

 

Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1073.5 Flight 5 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) • ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • JAXA Lunar Surface Data Acquisition Mission for Pressurized Rover Exploration (LAMPE) SORA-Q Transformable Lunar Robot • Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) Rashid Lunar Rover • Lunar Flashlight • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon • Atlas Crater • Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) • FCC • Advisory

NASA Artemis I SLS & Uncrewed Orion Around the Moon

 

Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 1 • Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-3 Hydrolox (5.7:1) Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service Module • Orion • 25 days • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • BioSentinel • SWRI CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP) • ASU Luna Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) • Lunar IceCube • Terran Orbital Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR) • JAXA EQUULEUS • JAXA OMOTENASHI • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Moon • Launch Windows • Realtime Tracking • Press Kit • Advisory

SpaceX KPLO Danuri Lunar Orbiter

 

Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1052.6 Flight 6 Reuseable • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) • Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) / Weak Stability Boundary (WSB) • Selenocentric Lunar Polar Orbit • Moon • Advisory

NASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE Final HyperCurie Burn to the Moon

 

Photon Upper Stage | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon • Press Kit

NASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE CubeSat to the Moon

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) • Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Photon Upper Stage | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon • Press Kit

Schedule of Upcoming Rocket Launches to the Moon, Livestreams & Lunar Events

All Moon dates are estimates based on the latest available information and may change
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  • TBC (To Be Confirmed)
  • TBD (To Be Determined)
DateMissionLivestreamNotes
NET June - JulyNASA ULA Vulcan Centaur Maiden Flight (Cert-1) Peregrine Lunar LanderSpace Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • United Launch Alliance (ULA) • Certification-1 Maiden Flight Vulcan Centaur VC2S • Twin Blue Origin BE-4 Engines • Two Northrop Grumman GEM-63XL Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-X Engines • Kuipersat-1 & Kuipersat-2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Celestis Enterprise Memorial Spaceflight TBC Solar Orbit • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Astrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Celestis Tranquility Memorial Spaceflight • Moon
JulyNASA SpaceX IM-1 Nova-C Lunar LanderLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-X • Moon • Press Kit
JulyISRO LVM3-M4 Chandrayaan-3 Lunar LanderSatish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) Second Launch Pad (SLP) • Sriharikota • India • Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) • Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk 3 / LVM3) • Chandrayaan-3 • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
NET SeptemberJAXA H2A F47 XRISM SLIM Lunar LandersLaunch Pad 1 (LA-Y1) • Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) • Japan • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • JAXA H2A (H-IIA) 202 | Twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB-A) | Twin Solid Strap-On Boosters (SSB) • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H2A (H-IIA) • JAXA X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) | Resolve (Soft X-ray Spectrometer) | Xtend (Soft X-ray Imager) • NASA XRISM • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) | Lunar Excursion Vehicle 1 (LEV-1) | Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) • Moon
NovemberNASA SpaceX IM-2 PRIME-1 & Lunar Trailblazer Nova-C Lunar LanderTBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) • Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) • Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • AstroForge Brokkr-2 | OrbAstro ORB-50 • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander | µNova (Micro Nova) Hopper • Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) • California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Lunar Trailblazer • Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) • International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-1 • Moon
Early 2024NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M1 Lunar Lander to the MoonSpace Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) • Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) • Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • NASA Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) • Montana State University (MSU) Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC-Lunar) • Moon
November 2024NASA Artemis II SLS & Crewed Orion Around the MoonLaunch Complex 39B (LC-39B) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 2 • Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-3 Hydrolox (5.7:1) Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service Module • Orion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
November 2024NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy PPE & HALO to Lunar GatewayLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway • Maxar Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) • Northrop Grumman Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
November 2024NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy Griffin & VIPER Rover to the Lunar South PoleLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Astrobotic Griffin Lunar Lander • NASA Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
December 2024NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy GLS-1 to Lunar GatewayLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Lunar Cargo Dragon XL • NASA Gateway Logistics Services (GLS) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
2024SpaceX HAKUTO-R M2 Private Lunar RoverTBC Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • ispace HAKUTO-R • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
2024NASA SpaceX IM-3 (CP-11) Nova-C Lunar LanderTBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) • Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) • Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander • Moon
NET March 2025NASA TBC Draper CP-12 SERIES-2 Lunar LanderTBC • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Draper CP-12 • General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) • Karman Systima • ispace SERIES-2 Lunar Lander • Moon
2025JAXA LUPEX Lunar Rover ISRO Chandrayaan-4 Lunar LanderLaunch Pad 2 (LA-Y2) • Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) • Japan • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • TBC H3-24L | Two LE-9 Engines | Four Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB-3) • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H3 • Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) Lunar Rover • Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chandrayaan-4 Lunar Lander • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
2026NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M2 Lunar Lander to the MoonSpace Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) • Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) • Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment at Night (LuSEE-Night) • ESA Lunar Pathfinder | SSTL Lunar Pathfinder • Moon
2026SpaceX Falcon Heavy Griffin Lunar Lander to the Lunar South PoleLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Astrobotic Griffin Lunar Lander • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon
Mid 2026SpaceX Starship AstroLab FLEX Lunar Lander to the MoonTBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Starship TBC • Raptor 2 Engines • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • AstroLab Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) Lunar Rover • Moon

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Recent Rocket Launches to the Moon & Lunar Events

DateMissionNotes
2023-04-25 16:40 UTCHAKUTO-R M1 Private Lunar Landingispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • JAXA Lunar Surface Data Acquisition Mission for Pressurized Rover Exploration (LAMPE) SORA-Q Transformable Lunar Robot • Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) Rashid Lunar Rover • Lunar Flashlight • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon • Atlas Crater • Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) • Landing Anomaly
2023-04-24 13:00 UTCNASA Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) Spring MeetingNASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII) • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL] Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) • Cislunar Space | Moon
2022-12-11 17:40 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion SplashdownMoon • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Orion • 25 days • Lockheed Martin Orion Skip Maneuver • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 1 • Realtime Tracking • Press Kit
2022-12-11 07:38 UTCSpaceX HAKUTO-R M1 Private Lunar LanderSpace Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1073.5 Flight 5 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) • ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • JAXA Lunar Surface Data Acquisition Mission for Pressurized Rover Exploration (LAMPE) SORA-Q Transformable Lunar Robot • Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) Rashid Lunar Rover • Lunar Flashlight • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon • Atlas Crater • Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) • FCC • Advisory
2022-12-05 16:43 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion Return Flyby of the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 1 • Orion • 25 days • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Moon • Realtime Tracking • Press Kit
2022-12-01 21:53 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion DRO Exit Burn Around the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 1 • Orion • 25 days • Moon • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Realtime Tracking • Press Kit
2022-11-25 21:52 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion DRO Insertion Burn Around the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 1 • Orion • 25 days • Moon • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Realtime Tracking • Press Kit
2022-11-21 12:44 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion Flyby of the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 1 • Orion • 25 days • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Realtime Tracking • Press Kit
2022-11-16 06:47 UTCNASA Artemis I SLS & Uncrewed Orion Around the MoonLaunch Complex 39B (LC-39B) • Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) • Artemis 1 • Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-3 Hydrolox (5.7:1) Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service Module • Orion • 25 days • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • BioSentinel • SWRI CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP) • ASU Luna Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) • Lunar IceCube • Terran Orbital Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR) • JAXA EQUULEUS • JAXA OMOTENASHI • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Moon • Launch Windows • Realtime Tracking • Press Kit • Advisory
2022-11-08 10:17 UTCBlood Moon Total Lunar EclipseNASA Science Live • Total Lunar Eclipse • Totality 85 Minutes • Visible in North & Central America, Western Venezuela & Peru, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand
2022-08-04 23:08 UTCSpaceX KPLO Danuri Lunar OrbiterSpace Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1052.6 Flight 6 Reuseable • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) • Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) / Weak Stability Boundary (WSB) • Selenocentric Lunar Polar Orbit • Moon • Advisory
2022-07-04 06:56 UTCNASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE Final HyperCurie Burn to the MoonPhoton Upper Stage | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon • Press Kit
2022-06-28 09:55 UTCNASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE CubeSat to the MoonLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) • Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Photon Upper Stage | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon • Press Kit
2022-05-16 04:12 UTCSuper Flower Blood Moon Total Lunar EclipseNASA Science Live • Super Blood Moon • Total Lunar Eclipse • Totality 84 Minutes • Visible in Americas, Europe & parts of Africa

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