Lunar Flashlight was a low-cost CubeSat lunar orbiter mission to explore, locate, and estimate size and composition of water ice deposits on the Moon...
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Near-rectilinear halo orbit (section Lunar Flashlight)
position relative to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), without relying on ground stations. NASA/JPL's Lunar Flashlight, a cubesat intended to search...
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Artemis I (section Lunar orbit)
Moon. It was designed by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Lunar Flashlight was a lunar orbiter that would seek exposed water ice and map its concentration...
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Apollo program (redirect from Apollo lunar landings)
landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command...
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Apollo 10 (redirect from Apollo 10 Lunar Ascent Stage)
Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to within 14.4 kilometers (7.8 nmi) of the lunar surface, the point at which powered descent...
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Apollo 11 (section Launch and flight to lunar orbit)
landed on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and...
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The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15...
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Apollo Lunar Module (LM /ˈlɛm/), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit...
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List of missions to the Moon (redirect from Future lunar missions)
Small Satellite Missions". 8 February 2023. "NASA gives up on tiny Lunar Flashlight probe's troubled moon ice mission". Space.com. 12 May 2023. Jones,...
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ends Lunar Flashlight mission because of thruster problems". 15 May 2023. Howell, Elizabeth (February 9, 2023). "Tiny NASA moon probe can't reach lunar orbit...
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