Planetary Science
LUNAR PROSPECTOR
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Lunar Prospector was a spacecraft that orbited the Moon for 19 months in 1998-99. From a low polar orbit, it mapped surface composition including lunar hydrogen deposits, measured magnetic and gravity fields, and studied lunar outgassing events. The mission ended July 31, 1999, when the orbiter was deliberately crashed into a crater near the lunar south pole.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 7, 1998 at 02:28 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Athena II →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Lunar Prospector
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-001A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25131
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 31, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 31, 1999
- Time in service
- 1.6 years
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed