MoonFall drones is a mission record in the MoonOpps lunar catalog (2026–2035), tracked for 2028 (By 2028). Status: Planned. Class: Robotic aerial surface scouts. Source confidence is High — corroborated by clear official or primary sources. The record links 9 actors, 3 payloads, 1 region, and 1 cited source. Tracked actors include NASA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Firefly Aerospace, Firefly Aerospace, and others. Payloads include Four drones with dashcam imagery, LRA, neutron spectrometer and radiation spectrometer. Target region: Near lunar South Pole. Catalog figures come from public sources, not predictions or live scraping, accessed through 2026-06-09.

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2028 / By 2028

MoonFall drones

High

Notes

NASA Moon Base page says MoonFall lands near the South Pole in 2028 transported aboard Firefly Elytra.

Actors by role

Payloads by type

instrument

Four drones with dashcam imagery

Four drones with dashcam imagery

LRA

LRA

neutron spectrometer and radiation spectrometer

neutron spectrometer and radiation spectrometer

Regions

Sources

Publisher

NASA

Source date

2026-06-09

Accessed

2026-06-09

Updated

Not specified