NASA’s LunarFlashlight satellite will search the moon's surface for water ice in places that haven't seen sunlight in billions of years.
SpaceX is about to launch NASA’s Lunar Flashlight satellite, as well as HAKUTO-R Mission 1, the first privately led Japanese mission to land on the lunar surface.
The briefcase-sized Lunar Flashlight satellite will use lasers to search for water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the moon’s South Pole, exploring places that haven’t seen sunlight in billions of years. It’s hoped that lunar water could one day be used for astronauts on long-stay moon missions, and even help to create rocket fuel for missions launching from the moon to planets such as Mars. Such a breakthrough would make space flights much more efficient as launching from the moon, which has much less gravitational pull than Earth, would eliminate the need for enormous rockets and large amounts of fuel.
How to watch SpaceX is aiming to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:39 a.m. ET on Wednesday, November 30.
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