Lunar Flashlight is now targeting high-Earth orbit, with monthly moon flybys.
Shortly after the thruster problems first cropped up, NASA and mission partners at the Georgia Institute of Technology estimated that Lunar Flashlight might still be able to reach its NRHO destination using a series of single-thruster firings. In January, the team spun the spacecraft at one revolution per minute and fired the thruster for several 10-minute periods. At first, engineers thought they could reach the correct orbit in 20 days.
NASA officials added that the key instrument to search for water, called a four-laser reflectometer, is working well in testing."This mini-instrument is the first of its kind and is designed and calibrated to seek out surface ice inside the permanently shadowed craters at the moon's south pole," they wrote.?" , a book about space medicine. Follow her on Twitter
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