Moon Missions Report:

• Missions in Progress
• Missions Actively Under Development
• Missions Proposed and on The Drawing Board
• Completed Missions

Missions Currently in Progress

Mission	Launch Date	Details	Latest News
Kaguya (Selene) (Japan)	September 14, 2007	orbiter in 100 km polar orbit + two sub-satellites: a backside relay orbiter and an interferometry satellite for lunar gravity measurements. Investigation of lunar origins, technology for future exploration	http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.htm
Chang'e-1 (China)	October 24, 2007	$170 million polar orbiter - 3-D lunar imagery, soil properties and resource survey: 2000 kg, 12-month mission	No update link found

Missions under active development, nearing launch dates

Mission	Launch Date	Details
Chandrayaan-1 (India)	April 2008	$100 million project, 525 kg polar orbiter (100 km), 2 year mission - gravity map and 3D chemical map of lunar surface
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA - Goddard) & piggyback LCROSS	October 2008	remote sensing: Identification of resources, locate safe future landing sites
GRAIL - Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (NASA Discovery Mission)	2011	This $375 M probe will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.
Proposed Italian Moon Mission (pdf file)	2010	"Mission under study" announced at ILEWG 8 in Beijing. May carry some instruments left off of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Chandrayaan-2	2010-2011	a landing platform with the moon rover.
Luna Glob - Russian lunar obiter/impactor/lander mission	2012	Orbiter, plus salvo of 10 impactors to monitor seismic activity, and a soft lander at the south pole to look for ice
Chang'e-2 - China	2012	lander, rover, sample return mission - camera, telescope and seismological gear
Moonlite - UK (with NASA, India support)	2012	Moonlite would launch 4 high speed penetrators at various points of the lunar globe to create a seismic network
European Student Moon Orbiter - ESMO (SSETI)	2011 earliest	Design project of the Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative (SSETI) - students from 15 countries involved
American Student Moon Orbiter - ASMO proposal	2011 earliest (doubtful)	NASA proposal, with NASA to provide setup, but financing private - not yet real
Proposed German Lunar Probe	2013
Russia-India join Lunar Laboratory orbiter	2017 latest
International Lunar Observatory	by 2012?	Stanford on the Moon Project, SpaceDev, South Lunar Polar location
Trailblazer (TransOrbital - commercial)	Continues to slip - doubtful - instrumentation now superseded by Kaguya, Chang'e-1, Chandiryaan-1, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter	solid-fuel translunar injection (4-day transfer); lunar video/still imaging from polar elliptic orbit (50 km close approach, 10 km final orbit); 100 kg (220 lb.)

Various other proposed Missions

Mission	Estimated Launch Date	Details
NASA Lunar lander (JPL?)	2009	robotic lander mission, using Mars MER mission technology
South-Pole Sample Return (NASA?)	by 2012?	In the 2002 decadal "New Frontiers in the Solar System" report, high on the list was sample return from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin
Chang'e Phase 3 (China - government)	by 2015	automated sample return
US human landing (government)	2020	stated goal of President Bush's exploration vision, at risk of cancellation by next Administration
China human landing (government)	2019-2020	stated goal for China's space program
Japan Manned Moon Mission	2021-30 timeframe

Completed Missions

Mission	Launch Date - End Date	Details	Results
SMART-1 (ESA - government)	27 September 2003 - September 3, 2006	Solar electric propulsion with 16-month transfer orbit; lunar photographic survey from polar elliptic orbit (300 km close approach); 370 kg (810 lb.)	Reached Lunar Orbit 2/27/05, Lunar Science Mission completed, guided to controlled impact in Lacus Excellentiae 9/03/2006 .
Lunar Prospector (NASA) Prehistory Book by PI Alan Binder	January 6, 1998 - July 31, 1999	Orbiter; Range of scientific instruments (non-photographic); 100 km orbit, 295 kg (650 lb.)	Report on Results
Clementine (US BMDO/NASA)	January 25, 1994 - March 1994	Testbed flight for BMD space technologies; polar elliptical orbit, 400 km close approach; lunar photographic mapping, 227 kg	Findings Reports