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Lunar Prospector was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program. [2] At a cost of $62.8 million, the 19-month mission was designed for a low polar orbit investigation of the Moon, including mapping of surface composition including lunar hydrogen deposits, measurements of magnetic and gravity fields, and study of lunar outgassing ...
3 Lunar Prospector: Moon: January 7, 1998 Athena II [Star-3700S] 296 kg (653 lb) January 16, 1998 Completed in 1999 Alan Binder [11] 63 (1998) [12] Lunar Prospector was a lunar orbiter to characterize the lunar mineralogy, including polar ice deposits, measure magnetic and gravitational fields, and study lunar outgassing events. After ...
The LCROSS mission passed its Mission Confirmation Review on February 2, 2007, [21] and its Critical Design Review on February 22, 2007. [22] After assembly and testing at Ames, the instrument payload, provided by Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, [ 23 ] was shipped to Northrop Grumman on January 14, 2008, for integration with the spacecraft ...
Australia's first lunar rover. Astrobotics mission 3 ⚀ LunaGrid-Lite CubeRover: Astrobotics: 2026 TBD Planned Third lunar mission by Astrobotic, will land at lunar south pole. LunaGrid-Lite mission. LUPEX: LUPEX Rover: JAXA ISRO: 2028 TBD: Planned Joint mission between ISRO and JAXA. Chang’e 8: Chang’e 8 rover CNSA: 2028 TBD: Planned ...
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M 3) is one of two instruments of NASA that was carried by India's first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, launched October 22, 2008.It is an imaging spectrometer, and the team is led by Principal investigator Carle Pieters of Brown University, and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA selected a Nova-C mission for CLPS task order CP-11. [1] It will deliver payloads to the lunar swirl in the Reiner Gamma region. [2] In August 2021, Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its third lunar mission, IM-3. [3] As of August 2024, the launch of IM-3 is expected to take place no earlier than October 2025. [4]
Prospector was based on a study that had been performed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in June 1960, to determine what lunar missions could be achieved using the Saturn I rocket. NASA envisioned Prospector as "a large versatile 'space truck'" [ 3 ] that could be launched by a Saturn rocket and that could soft-land on the Moon with a wide ...
This is a list of NASA missions, ... Discovery 3 – Lunar Prospector, launched January 1998, ... Code of Conduct; Developers;