• Thumbnail for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by...
    38 KB (3,330 words) - 12:42, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar orbit
    United States spacecraft to orbit the Moon was Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 14, 1966. The first orbit was an elliptical orbit, with an apolune of 1,008 nautical...
    16 KB (1,730 words) - 18:59, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar Orbiter program
    The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help...
    21 KB (2,661 words) - 23:20, 24 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lunar south pole
    Orbiters, Clementine, Lunar Prospector, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Kaguya, and Chandrayaan-1, that discovered the presence of lunar water. NASA's LCROSS...
    34 KB (3,243 words) - 12:39, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar Orbiter 1
    The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...
    9 KB (692 words) - 11:26, 1 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lunar water
    orbiter and rover Lunar Flashlight solar sail orbiter Lunar IceCube lunar orbiter LunaH-Map lunar obiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter "NASA - SOFIA discovers...
    58 KB (6,621 words) - 12:52, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danuri
    The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially Danuri, is South Korea's first lunar orbiter. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control...
    21 KB (1,924 words) - 01:51, 25 March 2024
  • potential resource identification. Two LPRP missions, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS),...
    12 KB (1,221 words) - 06:14, 17 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for International Lunar Research Station
    in-orbit and surface experiments Ground Support and Application Facility – data center and ground support operations Objectives: Lunar reconnaissance with...
    24 KB (1,838 words) - 03:12, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as...
    97 KB (8,667 words) - 10:39, 26 January 2024