Feeder line: earlier lunar mission¶
33 payloads on 18 missions in the records so far had a flight of this kind before the Moon.
Peregrine Mission One¶
Astrobotic (now Voyager Lunar Systems) · Peregrine · failed to land
IM-1¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Odysseus · landed
Blue Ghost Mission 1¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost · landed
IM-2¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Athena · landed
Griffin Mission One¶
Astrobotic (Voyager Lunar Systems since July 2026) · Griffin · manifested
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), on the lander
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), on the FLIP rover
- Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL), Psionic-built copy of the engineering test unit
IM-3¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Trinity · manifested
Blue Ghost Mission 2¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost with the Elytra orbiter · manifested
Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 1¶
Blue Origin · Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) Endurance · manifested
IM-4¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C · manifested
Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 2¶
Blue Origin · Blue Moon Mark 1 (second lander) · manifested
Blue Ghost Mission 3¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost · manifested
Blue Ghost Mission 4¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost with the Elytra orbiter · manifested
- Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS); NASA's CS-6 page says 'SCALPSS 1.x', the team's own slides list this unit as SCALPSS 2.0
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)
IM-5¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-D · manifested
- Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS); the team lists this unit as SCALPSS 2.1
- Near-Infrared Volatiles Spectrometer System (NIRVSS)
- Mass Spectrometer for Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo)
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)
Peregrine Mission Two¶
Astrobotic (Voyager Lunar Systems) · Peregrine · manifested
- Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS); version not stated by NASA
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)
Peregrine Mission Three¶
Astrobotic (Voyager Lunar Systems) · Peregrine · manifested
- Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS); version not stated by NASA
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)
IM-6¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C · manifested
- Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS); version not stated by NASA
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)
Blue Ghost Mission 5¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost · manifested
- Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS); version not stated by NASA
- Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)
CX-2 (two Blue Origin LTV deliveries)¶
Blue Origin · Blue Moon Mark 1 (per GeekWire) · manifested