2009 · United Launch Alliance
LRO/LCROSS
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LRO is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA. Used to map the moon to identify safe landing sites, locating potential resources, characterizing the radiation environment and demonstrating new technologies. The LCROSS is the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, also for NASA. A low cost satellite in order to confirm the existance of water in the southern lunar crater, Cabeus.
Overview
- Date / time
- June 18, 2009 at 09:32 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Mission
- LRO/LCROSS
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Orbit achieved
- Lunar Orbit