NASA Curtails Lunar Flashlight Mission Due To Limited Propulsion
Artist's concept of Lunar Flashlight.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
HOUSTON—NASA has terminated efforts to place its small, propulsively challenged Lunar Flashlight mission spacecraft into a backup orbit around the Earth that would take it over the Moon’s south pole each month to seek evidence of water ice. Lunar Flashlight was launched Dec. 11, 2022, as a rideshare...
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