Minotaur V | LADEE
Status: Success | Launched: Sep 07, 2013 03:27 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation (Commercial)
- Rocket: Minotaur V — Minotaur family
Mission
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE, pronounced like "laddie") was a robotic mission that orbited the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust.
- Type: Robotic Exploration
- Orbit: Lunar Orbit (LO)
Launch Site
- Pad: Launch Area 0 B
- Location: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
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