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Lunar Polar Science Package certified for flight
The nine-investigation surface package during final acceptance work following vibration, thermal-vacuum and low-temperature testing.
- PROGRAM
- ALEP 15
- ACCESSION
- ANSA-ALEP15-SCI-0710
CURRENT MISSION · ALEP 15
Return to the
lunar surface.
Four crew. Nineteen days. A six-day scientific expedition at the Moon's south pole.
COUNTDOWN TO TARGET LAUNCH
--DAYS--HOURS--MINUTES--SECONDS
011952
ANSA established
0223 DEC 1968
First crewed lunar landing
035
Historic crewed lunar landings
0410
People who walked on the Moon
05356.5 kg
Lunar material returned
0621 SEP 2026
ALEP 15 target launch
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AINARE LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM
AUTHORIZED 04 MAR 1961 · RENEWED 12 JUN 2017
One program.
Two lunar eras.
From the first crewed landing in 1968 to the polar systems now in flight, ALEP is a sustained campaign of human and robotic lunar exploration.
1968FIRST LANDING
356.5 kgSAMPLES RETURNED
2026NEXT EXPEDITION
MISSIONS
Across air, Earth and deep space
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ALEP 15
Four-person expedition; two-person surface stay at DGR-2.
HUMAN EXPLORATIONLUNAR SOUTH POLE
IN PREPARATIONTARGET 21 SEP 2026
ALEP 15-L
Ardea lander Dawn is commissioned and awaiting Resolve.
LUNAR EXPLORATIONLUNAR POLAR ORBIT
IN FLIGHTLAUNCHED 28 MAY 2026
Pelagos-4
Ocean, cryosphere and coastal-change observatory.
EARTH SCIENCESUN-SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT
ACTIVELAUNCHED 11 MAY 2022
Farpoint Kestrel
Maps shallow subsurface ice and seasonal dust transport.
PLANETARY SCIENCEMARS
ACTIVELAUNCHED 19 JUL 2018
Aurora-2
Continuous solar-wind measurements and space-weather warning.
HELIOPHYSICSSUN–EARTH L1
ACTIVELAUNCHED 06 FEB 2020
Tern SR-1
Carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid sample-return mission.
PLANETARY SCIENCEASTEROID 2016 QN8
IN FLIGHTLAUNCHED 14 SEP 2023
PEOPLE OF ANSA
The team preparing ALEP 15
Flight crew, program leadership and independent technical authorities are completing final mission certification.
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ANSA ARCHIVE · ALEP 7 · 23 DEC 1968THE FIRST LUNAR ERA
Five landings.
A living archive.
Original flight logs, surface photography, engineering drawings and a collection of 356.5 kilograms of lunar material remain active scientific resources.
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CONCEPT IMAGE · ALEP 15 · DGR-2PUBLIC RESOURCES
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