Orbiter
LADEE
NASA
Studied the Moon’s faint atmosphere and floating dust from a low orbit, and was brought down on the far side in 2014.
Open in 3DThe flight
September 7, 2013
Launch
September 28, 2013
Arrives at Moon
April 18, 2014
JPL’s track of it ends
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
LADEE
Former NASA Lunar mission
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. During its seven-month mission LADEE orbited the Moon's equator studying the lunar exosphere and dust in the Moon's vicinity.
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