Liftoff is scheduled for 3:39 a.m. EST on Wednesday (Nov. 30).
called Lunar Flashlight, which will hunt for water ice inside craters near the moon's south pole.
"We are bringing a literal flashlight to the moon — shining lasers into these dark craters to look for definitive signs of water ice covering the upper layer of lunar regolith," Barbara Cohen, Lunar Flashlight principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a"I'm excited to see our mission contribute to our scientific understanding of where water ice is on the moon and how it got to be there," Cohen added.
Lunar Flashlight will do this work from near-rectilinear halo orbit . This highly elliptical path will also be occupied by Gateway, the small space station NASA plans to assemble via its
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