LADEE reaches lunar orbit
OCT 15, 2013
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.027418
Washington Post : NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was launched on 9 September from Wallops Island, Virginia. NASA had been issuing mission updates online, but following the government shutdown, that service was suspended. The mission itself is being monitored by Orbital Sciences, which provided the Minotaur rocket on which the spacecraft was launched. Just after the shutdown began, LADEE left Earth orbit and transitioned to lunar orbit. In addition to studying the molecular composition of the lunar atmosphere, it will examine dust particles that have been lifted from the surface into the atmosphere.
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