The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission. It was launched on a Minotaur V rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on September 7, 2013, and during its seven-month mission orbited the Moon's equator studying the lunar exosphere and the dust in the Moon's vicinity. Its instruments included a dust detector, a neutral mass spectrometer and an ultraviolet-visible spectrometer, along with a technology demonstration consisting of a laser communications terminal. Controllers intentionally crashed the spacecraft into the far side of the Moon on April 18, 2014.
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1. Wikipedia: LADEE
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LADEE orbited the Moon's equator studying the lunar exosphere and dust in the Moon's vicinity
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was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission
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It was launched on a Minotaur V rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on September 7, 2013
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was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission
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was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission
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was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission
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was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission
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LADEE is a completed NASA orbiter probe to the Moon, built by the NASA Ames Research Center.
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Dust counts made by LADEE's Lunar Dust EXperiment (LDEX) found particle counts peaked during the Geminid, Quadrantid, Northern Taurid, and Omicron Centaurid meteor showers, when the Earth, and Moon pass through comet debris.
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