NASA Curtails Lunar Flashlight Mission Due To Limited Propulsion

Artist's concept of Lunar Flashlight.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
HOUSTON—NASA has terminated efforts to place its small, propulsively challenged Lunar Flashlight mission spacecraft into a backup orbit around the Earth that would take it over the Moon’s south pole each month to seek evidence of water ice. Lunar Flashlight was launched Dec. 11, 2022, as a rideshare...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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