But LunaH-Map could still salvage its water-hunting mission.
was supposed to perform an engine firing during its flyby of the moon on Monday but failed to do so, likely because of a stuck valve in its propulsion system, NASA officials said.
But all is not necessarily lost. LunaH-Map's other systems appear to be functioning normally, and heating the valve might free it, bringing the propulsion system online as well. "If the propulsion system is able to achieve thrust within the next few months, the mission may still recover some or all of LunaH-Map's original science mission," NASA officials said in an."On the spacecraft's current path, alternate trajectories are available to achieve lunar orbit — including orbits that could enable low-altitude measurements of the lunar surface."
And LunaH-Map could still find work farther afield if it takes even longer to fix the current glitch, NASA officials explained in the update:"Trajectory solutions outside of the Earth-moon system may exist to fly close to certain asteroids and characterize their hydrogen content." LunaH-Map, which is led by researchers at Arizona State University, isn't the only Artemis 1 cubesat to suffer problems after being deployed by the mission's
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