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LADEE
Lunar exosphere.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Lunar exosphere. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2013-047; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 7 September 2013, 03:27:00 UTC
- Launch location
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
- Launch vehicle
- Minotaur V
- Orbit
- Deep-space Earth orbit
Flight data
Launch intelligence
An Orbital ATK Minotaur V rocket launched the LADEE mission on Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 3:27 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Orbital ATK
- Vehicle
- Minotaur V
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2013-047
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Sep 7, 2013, 03:27 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Sep 07 2013
- Pad and location
- Pad 0B, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 18 April 2014
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
LADEE
Lunar exosphere.
- GCAT ID
- S39246
- Manufacturer
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field
- Launch mass
- 383 kg
- Propulsion
- R-4D-15
- Dimensions
- 2.4 m long · 1.9 m diameter · 2.4 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from LADEE.
Verification
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