flown missionSuccess
Atlas V 401 | LRO/LCROSS
United Launch AllianceSpace Launch Complex 41 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- LRO/LCROSS
- Type
- Planetary Science
- Target orbit
- Lunar Orbit (LO)
LRO is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA. Used to map the moon to identify safe landing sites, locating potential resources, characterizing the radiation environment and demonstrating new technologies. The LCROSS is the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, also for NASA. A low cost satellite in order to confirm the existance of water in the southern lunar crater, Cabeus.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Family
- Atlas
- Variant
- 401
- Provider
- United Launch Alliance
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.5834, -80.5830