| Mission | Country/agency | Orbital insertion | Current status | Notes |
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| Luna 10[1] | USSR | 3 April 1966 | Contact lost 30 May 1966, probably decayed the same year | First extraterrestrial and Moon orbiter |
| Lunar Orbiter 1 | USA | 14 August 1966 | Impacted lunar surface 29 October 1966 | FirstU.S. extraterrestrial orbiter |
| Luna 11[2] | USSR | 27 August 1966 | Contact lost 1 October 1966, probably decayed the same or following year | |
| Luna 12 | USSR | 25 October 1966 | Contact lost 19 January 1967, probably decayed the same year | |
| Lunar Orbiter 2 | USA | Launched 6 November 1966 | Impacted lunar surface 11 October 1967 | |
| Lunar Orbiter 3 | USA | 8 February 1967 | Impacted lunar surface 9 October 1967 | |
| Lunar Orbiter 4 | USA | Launched 4 May 1967 | Contact lost 17 July 1967, impacted lunar surface 6 October 1967 | |
| Explorer 35 | USA | Launched 19 July 1967 | Deactivated 24 June 1973; impacted lunar surface in the middle to late 1970s | |
| Lunar Orbiter 5 | USA | 5 August 1967 | Deorbited; impacted lunar surface 31 January 1968 | |
| Luna 14 | USSR | 10 April 1968 | Mission terminated 24 June 1968, its orbit probably decayed | |
| Luna 19 | USSR | 2 October 1971 | Mission terminated 20 October 1972 and contact lost on 1 November 1972, probably decayed the following year | |
| Explorer 49 | USA | Launched 10 June 1973 | Contact lost August 1977, its orbit probably decayed | |
| Luna 22 | USSR | 2 June 1974 | Mission terminated November 1975, its orbit probably decayed in 1976 | |
| Apollo 8 | USA | Launched 21 December 1968; entered orbit after 69 hrs | Left orbit after 10 orbits;splashdown on Earth | First crewed lunar orbit |
| Apollo 10 | USA | Launched 18 May 1969 | Left orbit 26 May 1969 | |
| Apollo 11 | USA | July 19, 1969 | July 21, 1969; Lunar module ascent stage abandoned in orbit, impact site unknown | First humanMoon landing |
| Apollo 12 | USA | November 18, 1969 | November 21, 1969 | Human Moon landing |
| Apollo 14 | USA | February 4, 1971 | February 7, 1971 | Human Moon landing |
| Apollo 15 | USA | July 29, 1971 | August 4, 1971 | Human Moon landing |
| Apollo 15 subsatellite (PFS-1) | USA | August 4, 1971 | January 1973 | |
| Apollo 16 | USA | April 19, 1972 | April 25, 1972; Lunar module ascent stage abandoned in orbit, impact site unknown | Human Moon landing |
| Apollo 16 subsatellite (PFS-2) | USA | April 24, 1972 | May 29, 1972 | |
| Apollo 17 | USA | December 11, 1972 | December 14, 1972 | Human Moon landing |
| Hiten and Hagoromo | Japan | Hiten: 15 February 1993 | Hiten was deliberately deorbited and impacted the lunar surface 10 April 1993 | FirstJapanese lunar orbiter |
| Clementine | USA | Launched 25 January 1994 | Left lunar orbit and entered heliocentric orbit; contact lost June 1994 | |
| Lunar Prospector | USA | Launched 7 January 1998 | Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 31 July 1999 | |
| SMART-1 | ESA | 11 November 2004 | Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 3 September 2006 | |
| SELENE (Kaguya, Okina and Ouna) | Japan | 3 October 2007 | Deliberately deorbited; impacted lunar surface 10 June 2009 | |
| Chang'e 1 | China | 5 November 2007 | Deliberately deorbited 1 March 2009; impacted the Moon's surface. | FirstChinese lunar orbiter |
| Chandrayaan-1 | India | 8 November 2008 | Deliberately crashed into lunar surface. Impact probe remained operational for a few days. Contact lost 29 August 2009. | FirstIndian lunar orbiter |
| Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter[3] | USA | 23 June 2009 | Active | |
| Chang'e 2 | China | 6 October 2010 | Left lunar orbit 8 June 2011; currently in deep-space orbit | |
| ARTEMIS P1 | USA | 2 July 2011 | Active | |
| ARTEMIS P2[4] | USA | 17 July 2011 | Active | |
| Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) | USA | 31 December 2011 / 1 January 2012 | Both spacecraft were deliberately deorbited and impacted on the lunar surface 17 December 2012 | |
| LADEE | USA | 6 October 2013 | Deliberately deorbited 18 April 2014 | |
| Chang'e 3 | China | 6 December 2013 | Landed on lunar surface 14 December 2013 | First Chinese lunar landing |
| Chang'e 5-T1 | China | 13 January 2015 | Returned to Earth on 31 October 2014 | |
| Chang'e 4 | China | 12 December 2018 | Landed on lunar surface 3 January 2019. TheQueqiao relay satellite was placed in an Earth-MoonL2halo orbit. | First lunar far-side landing |
| Longjiang-2 microsatellite | China | 25 May 2018 | Deorbited 2019 | |
| Beresheet | Israel | 4 April 2019 | Crashed onto lunar surface 11 April 2019 | First private lunar lander. Successfully orbited for 7 days. Soft landing failed. |
| Chandrayaan-2 | India | 20 August 2019 | Orbiter is active. The Vikram lander lost contact at 2.1 km from the lunar surface, and was subsequently destroyed.[5] | It was originally thought that Vikram had survived the impact, and ISRO continued trying to contact the lander until the lunar night.[6] |
| Chang'e 5 | China | 1 December 2020 | Orbiter is As of 2022[update] in lunarDRO orbit. | First lunar sample return mission by China. Ascent stage deorbited on 7 December 2020. Capsule successfully returned sample via service module on 16 December 2020. The orbiter will make lunar flyby in extended mission on 9 September 2021 inDistant retrograde orbit.[7] |
| CAPSTONE | USA | 14 November 2022 | Active and on aNear-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) | Lunar orbitingCubeSat that will test and verify the calculated orbital stability planned for theGateway space station. |
| Artemis 1 | USA | 25 November 2022 | Remained on aSelenocentric orbit (DRO) until 5 December 2022, then returned to Earth | First mission of theArtemis program. |
| LunaH-Map | USA | 25 November 2022 | Decayed 20 February 2023 | |
| Lunar IceCube | USA | 25 November 2022 | On aSelenocentric orbit | Contact lost shortly after the launch. Conducted lunar flyby on 21 November 2022, likely in a heliocentric orbit. |
| DanuriKPLO | USA / South Korea | 16 December 2022 | On aSelenocentric orbit | Lunar Orbiter by theKorea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) ofSouth Korea. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control infrastructure are technology demonstrators. The orbiter will also be tasked with surveyinglunar resources such aswater ice,uranium,helium-3,silicon, andaluminium, and produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites. |
| Hakuto-R Mission 1 | Japan | 21 March 2023 | Crashed onto lunar surface on 25 April 2023 | Carried the emiratiRashid and the Japanese SORA-Q lunar rovers. Contact lost during landing attempt. |
| Chandrayaan-3 | India | 5 August 2023 | Success (returned to Earth Orbit) | Propulsion module, also functioning as a Chandrayaan-3 relay satellite. Conducted 4 flybys enroute return to Earth's orbit. |
| Luna 25 | Russia | 16 August 2023 | Crashed onto lunar surface on 19 August 2023 | Lunar south pole lander, landing scheduled for 21 August 2023. Contact lost after orbit lowering maneuver. |
| SLIM | Japan | 25 December 2023 | Landed on Lunar surface on 19 January 2024 | Carried the Japanese LEV-1 and LEV-2 lunar rovers. First Japanese soft landing. |
| IM-1Odysseus[8] | USA | 21 February 2024 | Landed on lunar surface on 22 February 2024 | Carried the AmericanEagleCam cubesat. |
| Queqiao-2 | China | 24 March 2024 | On aSelenocentric orbit | |
| Tiandu-1 | China | 24 March 2024 | On aSelenocentric orbit | |
| Tiandu-2 | China | 24 March 2024 | On aSelenocentric orbit | |
| DRO A/B | China | ~20 August 2024 | On aSelenocentric orbit | Yuanzheng 1S upper stage failed to deliver spacecrafts into correct orbit. The satellites were intended to testDistant retrograde orbit.[9] Tracking data appears to show China is attempting to salvage spacecraft and they appear to have succeeded in reaching their desired orbit.[10][11] |
| Chang'e 6 | China | 8 May 2024 | Left lunar orbit 21 June 2024; currently at Sun Earth L2 | First lunar sample return mission from far side and south pole of Moon by China. Ascent stage was deorbited on 6 June 2024. The capsule returned the sample via service module on 25 June 2024.[12] |
| ICUBE-Q | Pakistan | 8 May 2024 | On aSelenocentric orbit | FirstPakistani lunar mission, piggybacking with Chang'e 6.[12] |
| Blue Ghost M1 | USA | 13 February 2025 | Landed on lunar surface on 2 March 2025 | |
| Hakuto-R Mission 2Resilience | Japan | 5 June 2025 | Crash landed. | Carried the Tenacious rover made byLuxembourg. |
| IM-2Athena | USA | 3 March 2025 | Landed on lunar surface on 6 March 2025 | Carried MAPP LV1, Micro-Nova, AstroAnt andYaoki rover, each built by different organisations. |