This illustration depicts NASA's Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed, shortly after launch in December. Soon after, the briefcase-size CubeSat experienced thruster issues that prompted months of troubleshooting efforts by the mission's operations team.
While the CubeSat couldn't reach the lunar South Pole to help seek ice, it fulfilled several technology goals that will empower future missions for the benefit of humanity.
NASA gives up on tiny Lunar Flashlight probe's troubled moon ice mission | Space
NASA has given up on the planned moon mission of its tiny Lunar Flashlight cubesat, which aimed to hunt for water ice in shadowy craters near the moon's south pole.
The briefcase-sized Lunar Flashlight launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last December . It was a ride-along payload on a mission whose chief aim was to send the private Japanese company ispace's robotic Hakuto-R lander toward the moon .
NASA ends Lunar Flashlight mission after months of troubleshooting efforts | Science-Environment
NASA has officially concluded the Lunar Flashlight mission as the CubeSat failed to make it to the Moon's South Pole.
While the CubeSat couldn’t reach the intended destination, it fulfilled several technology goals that NASA believes will empower future missions for the benefit of humanity.
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