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Super cool! Other upcoming missions that are going to be looking for water on the moon: - Lunar IceCube, a 6U CubeSat designed to prospect for lunar water wil
by tectonic 6y ago
Super cool!
Other upcoming missions that are going to be looking for water on the moon:
- Lunar IceCube, a 6U CubeSat designed to prospect for lunar water will launch on EM-1, the first Artemis mission. The 14 kg CubeSat will search for water in ice, liquid, and vapor (in the Moon’s very tenuous atmosphere) forms and includes an Iodine-based electric propulsion thruster
- Lunar Flashlight CubeSat, another of EM-1’s 13 secondary payloads, will search for ice in permanently shadowed lunar crater regions using an onboard laser.
We discussed these missions in Orbital Index a few weeks ago: http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-09-30-Issue-84/#lunar-icecube http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-09-30-Issue-84/#lunar-i...