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LADEE

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The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, known as LADEE, was a NASA lunar exploration and technology-demonstration mission launched on a Minotaur V rocket on September 7, 2013. During its seven-month mission it orbited the lunar equator, using its instruments, including a dust detector, a neutral mass spectrometer and an ultraviolet-visible spectrometer, to study the thin lunar atmosphere and dust in the vicinity of the Moon, alongside a technology demonstration of a laser communications terminal. The mission ended on April 18, 2014, when controllers intentionally crashed LADEE into the far side of the Moon.

Facts
Spacecraft Type
Lunar atmospheric research 2
Launch Date
2013-09-07 3
Status
Status (category)
De-Orbited 1
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Source Wikipedia: LADEE
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1. LADEE (Wikipedia)
the spacecraft's controllers intentionally crashed LADEE into the far side of the MoonView the Source
2. Wikipedia: LADEE
  • Infobox, mission_type
    Lunar atmospheric research
  • In Group: Lunar Orbiters and Flyby Probes, The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE; ) was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission. It was launched on a Minotaur V rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Region
  • Operated By: NASA, Lead paragraph, operator
    The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE; ) was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission.
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3. Wikidata: LADEE
Wikidata Q601848, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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