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by gonmad 2500 days ago
Lunakhod 1 was still responding in 2013 (40 years later) thanks to the NASA LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter). French website, as it was a (secret) collaboration between Russians and the CNES who provided the retroreflector: https://sciences-techniques.cnes.fr/fr/web/CNES-fr/10757-st-...
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Thanks for that, I'd never heard of the French collaboration before.