March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... too expensive to tolerate failure. However, there are ways to help strike a more efficient balance, an area in which LCROSS was a pathfinder: Performance. The first step in containing cost and risk is to eliminate the pursuit of maximum performance...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...-1 orbiter. The water ice, now also confirmed by NASA’s LCROSS mission and currently estimated at over a billion metric tonnes per .... The water ice, now also confirmed by NASA’s LCROSS mission and currently estimated at over a billion metric tonnes...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... spectrometer aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft. The impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft in crater Cabeus nearly a decade ago, excavated material from the surface layers in a shadowed region, and...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
...’s contribution to the space economy, provide the first “ground truth” data for the poles since the LCROSS impact in 2009, be the first US lunar lander since Apollo 17 in 1972, and become be the first ever US robotic...
